 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871 - 530 páginas
...Review remarks, after noticing this case : ' Yet, frightful to think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes.' And a long and a black catalogue it was. ' Barrington, in his observations on the statute of Henry... | |
 | Edward Turney - 1872 - 132 páginas
..." It is a relief to find, however, that a pardon was granted. After this, viz. in 1617, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon,...pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap ! " Well, this is but Cruden's theology, and we may add, that of whole hosts of men in " holy orders."... | |
 | Sylva (pseud.) - 1874 - 200 páginas
...execntious, however, were continued with nearly equal frequency long afterwards. In 1716 a Airs. Uicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their sonls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings nnd making a lather of soap.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 páginas
...Yet even in 1716, five years after this paper was written, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, a child of nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their...off their stockings, and making a lather of soap! (Foreign Quarterly Review. quoted in Chambers' Information for the People.) One of the worst stains... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 páginas
...Yet even in 1716, five years after this paper was written, a Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, a child of nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their...pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap I (Foreign Quarterly Review, quoted in Chambers' Information for the People.) One of the worst staiM... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 páginas
...was written, a Mrs' H>cks and her daughter, a child of nine, were hanged at H»nt/ngd0ri f°J !'elhng their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off 'heir stockn1f>S' a,nd making a lather of soap ! (Foreign Quarterly Review, •)u°ted in d Jaambers... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 páginas
...the elements against the King. In 1716 Mistress Hicks and daughter, aged nine, were hanged in England "for selling their souls to the devil, and raising...off their stockings and making a lather of soap." One cannot think so ill of human nature as to believe these things possible among men who had not a... | |
 | Albany De Fonblanque - 1876 - 318 páginas
...maimed. Another old lady, and her daughter aged nine, sold themselves as aforesaid, and raised a fearful storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap — proceedings which in these godless days would suggest nothing more reprehensible than a family... | |
 | James Paterson - 1877 - 530 páginas
...on the fourth day.1 The cases before Hale, CJ, were however not the last. In 1716 Mrs. Hicks and a daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, destroying their neighbours by making them the bishop, to the peasant. Bishop Jewel, in a sermon before... | |
 | Pictorial cabinet - 1878 - 574 páginas
...whole charge, and the woman was pardoned. Yet, frightful to think, after all this, in 1716, Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon...pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap I With this crowning atrocity the catalogue of murders in England closes. And a long and a black catalogue... | |
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Mrs Hicks and her daughter, aged nine, were hanged at Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings, and making a lather of soap ! With this crowning atrocity, the catalogue of murders in England closes. 
