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After souls by death are separated from their bodies, they come to judgment. Asserted in a sermon deliver'd at Worcester, November 24th, 1737. Being the day of the execution of John Hamilton, alias Hugh Henderson. (With his confession and dying warning.) By John Campbell, M.A. and Pastor of the church in Oxford, N.E. [Six lines of quotations]
Campbell, John, 1691-1761.Date: 1738- Books
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An enquiry into the causes of the frequent executions at Tyburn: and A Proposal for some Regulations concerning Felons in Prison, and the good Effects to be Expected from them. To which is Added, A Discourse on Transportation, and a Method to render that Punishment more Effectual. By B. Mandeville, M. D.
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, Minister of the Gospel at Lawrence-Jury, London; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England: giving an account of Babylon's fall, or the destruction of popery; and, in the glorious event, a general reformation over all the world.
Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.Date: 1759- Pictures
An executioner raises his sword as he prepares to sever the head of one of two ring leaders of a band of pirates who attacked the houseboat Helvetia in Canton, a group of soldiers in parade stand behind and in the foreground a group of on-lookers. Photogravure after A. Michie after a drawing by F.C. Dickinson ca. 1880.
Dickinson, F.C.Date: [1880?]Reference: 586381i- Books
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Prospectus of the Revolutionary Magazine, (to be continued weekly.) By a Society of Gentlemen.
Date: 1795?]- Books
The hanging tree : execution and the English people, 1770-1868 / V.A.C. Gatrell.
Gatrell, Vic, 1941-Date: 1996- Books
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The serious consideration, that God will visit and judge men for sin, would be a happy means to keep them from it. A sermon preach'd at Cambridge, September 15th. 1738. On occasion of the execution of Philip Kennison, for the crime of burglary. By William Williams, M.A. Pastor of the church in Weston. [Five lines of Scripture texts] With the confession of his faith.
Williams, William, 1688-1760.Date: 1738- Pictures
China: the mutilated bodies of two men who had been tortured, dismembered and beheaded. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663857i- Pictures
The beheading of the accomplices of the murderers of two British officers in Japan, 1864. Wood engraving after C. Wirgman, 1865.
Wirgman, Charles, 1832-1891.Date: 1865Reference: 580192i- Ephemera
Crime and executions ephemera. Box 1.
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An elephant killing an Indian criminal by stamping on his head; guards standing next to it. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker, 1875, after E. Bayard after L. Rousselet.
Rousselet, Louis, 1845-1929.Date: [1875]Reference: 579970i- Books
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Prophecies of the Reverend Christopher Love: and his last words on the scaffold: who was beheaded at Tower-Hill, London: on the twenty-second day of August, 1651.
Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Pictures
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A Chinese man being garrotted attached to a cross; two guards watching him. Wood engraving, 1857.
Date: [1857]Reference: 579912i- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+49.
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An account of the crime, trial, confession, and execution of Charles Smith : who was hanged on Newcastle Town Moor, on Wednesday the 3d. of December, 1817, for the barbarous and cruel MURDER of Charles Stewart, at Ousebourn Pottery.
Date: 1817- Pictures
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An auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition: the burning of heretics in a market place. Wood engraving by H.D. Linton after Bocourt after T. Robert-Fleury.
Robert-Fleury, Tony, 1837-1911.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 43737i- Books
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The reasons and design of public punishments; a sermon, delivered before the people who were collected to the execution of Moses Dunbar, who was condemned for high treason against the state of Connecticut, and executed March 19th, A.D. 1777. By Nathan Strong, pastor of the first church in Hartford.
Strong, Nathan, 1748-1816.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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An Account of the execution of the Late Laurence Earl Ferrers, Viscount Tamworth, and of His Lordship's behaviour, from the time of his being delivered into the custody of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, until the time of his execution. By the authority of the sheriffs.
Date: M,DCC,LX. [1760]- Pictures
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A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851.Date: 1824Reference: 31590i- Pictures
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Vietnam: a man in a pillory, who is being led to his execution, accompanied by his family members, his executioner (holding sword) and officials. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat, 1889, after C.-E. Hocquard.
Hocquard, Charles-Edouard, 1853-1911.Date: 1890Reference: 579892i- Pictures
China: a man being beheaded, while the body of a man already beheaded lies in the foreground; a crowd of Chinese people and some Europeans stand around. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663487i- Pictures
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Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist: the executioner presenting the head to Salome. Etching by W. Unger after C. Fabritius.
Fabritius, Carel, 1622-1654.Reference: 6259i- Pictures
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Taiping Rebellion, China: the place in Guangzhou where people were executed. Wood engraving after W.G. Dickson, 1855.
Dickson, Walter G.Date: [1855]Reference: 579927i- Pictures
China: the bodies and heads of four men who have been beheaded lie on the ground; a group of Chinese soldiers stand nearby, one of them wiping his sword. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 663488i- Books
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Useful remarks. An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men. A sermon on the tragical end, unto which the way of twenty-six pirates brought them; at New Port on Rhode-Island, July 19, 1723. With an account of their speeches, letters, & actions, before their execution. [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1723