 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 832 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth by tour of the undertaker's men kneeling, who wrapped it up and put it into the coffin with the body ; orders having been...with saw-dust, the block new-covered, the executioner new dressed, and a new axe brought. Then came old Halmermo, treading with the air of a general. As... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 436 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth by four of the undertaker's men kneeling, who wrapped it upiind put it into the coffin with the body; orders having been...was immediately new-strewed with saw-dust, the block new covered, the executioner new-dressed, and a new axe brought. Then came old Balmerino, treading... | |
 | 1833 - 460 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth by four of the undertaker's men kneeling, who wrapped it up and put it into the coffin with the body : orders having been...used to be the custom. "The scaffold was immediately uewstrewed with saw-dust, the block new-covered, the executioner new dressed, and a new axe brought.... | |
 | 1834 - 754 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth, by four of the undertaker's men kneeling, who wrapped it up, and put it into the coffin with the body ; orders having been...used to be the custom. The scaffold was immediately new strewed with sawdust, the block new covered, the executioner new dressed, and a new axe brought.... | |
 | 1834 - 724 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth, by four of the undertaker's men kneeling, who wrapped it up, and put it into the coffin with the body; orders having been given not to expose the heads, as nsed to be the custom. The scaffold was immediately new strewed with sawdust, the block new covered,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 440 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth by four of the undertaker's men, kneeling, who wrapped it up and put it into the coffin with the body ; orders having been...used to be the custom. The scaffold was immediately new strewed with saw-dust, the block new covered, the executioner new dressed, and a new axe brought.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 318 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth by four of the undertaker's irlen kneeling, who wrapped it up and put it into the coffin with the body ; orders having been...not to expose the heads, as used to be the custom." Lord Kilmarnock was executed on the 18th of August, 1746, at the age of forty -one. His remains were... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 368 pages
...and was received in a scarlet cloth, by four undertakers' men kneeling, who wrapped it up, and put it into the coffin with the body ; orders having been...used to be the custom. The scaffold was immediately new strewed with sawdust, the block new covered, the executioner new dressed, and a new axe brought.... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 360 pages
...and was received in a scarlet cloth, by four undertakers' men kneeling, who wrapped it up, and put it into the coffin with the body ; orders having been...used to be the custom. The scaffold was immediately new strewed with sawdust, the block new covered, the executioner new dressed, and a new axe brought.... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...received in a scarlet cloth by four, of the undertaker's men kneeling, who wrapped it up and put it into the coffin with the body ; orders having been given not to expose the head, as used to be the custom. The scaffold was immediately new-strewed with sawdust, the block new-covered,... | |
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... last the Earl knelt down, with a visible unwillingness to depart, and after five minutes dropped his handkerchief, the signal, and his head was cut off at once, only hanging by a bit of skin, and was received in a scarlet cloth, by four of the undertaker's... 
