Hanging (5 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
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[ Victorian poem describing the public execution of a woman. ] Autograph poem by Sir Richard Harington, titled 'The Judicial Murder - A Fragment', a fictional account of a woman's execution, with drawings by the author.
Sir Richard Harington (1861-1931), 12th Baronet, of Ridlington [ Eton College; hanging; public execution in Victorian England ]
Verlag: Eton? s? or Oxford? 1880s?, 1870
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In den Warenkorb4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. On paper watermarked 'J GREEN & SON'. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with slight loss at the spine.From the Harington family papers, the author's identity being established from other items. Clearly a youthful production, and either written during Harington's time at Eton in the 1870s, or Christ… Church, Oxford, in the 1880s. Written employing the long s. The 140 lines of verse are numerated by the author, and a catch-word at the end suggests that more followed or the poet's invention failed him. Three illustrations in pencil are on the middle two pages: one of the hangman, another of the woman in Victorian clothing fallen to the floor, and the last of her lying inside her coffin. A fourth pencil illustration on the last page, depicting the dead woman on the ground, written over by the text. As often with Victorian writing on the subject, the writing is charged with a certain erotic undertone. Public execution was of course the staple of Victorian street ballads, but it is unusual to find such a production by a member of the upper classes. The 'fragment' begins: 'Thus she, though free from guilt & fair & young | Goes, a convicted felon, to be hung | Her pinioned elbows bound behind her back | And bared, all ready for the rope, her neck | They help her mount the cart & her they bid | To seat herself upon the coffin lid'. The execution is described as follows: 'The cart moves on: the rope about her neck | Drawn tighter still & drags her helpless back | Forced o'er the edge at last it holds her there | To swing & twist, & dangle in the air | As her full weight bears on the slipping knot | Begins a strangling pressure round her throat | Without, - the halter gulls her tender skin | Her windpipe chokes, & checks her breath within | She tries to scream for mercy, but in vain | No sound shall issue from those lips again | But silent movements only testify | How long the struggling body takes to die | Striving in vain the pinioned arms to loose | Could she but reach the ever tightening noose | Relax a little of it's [sic] choking strain | Pull off the stifling cap & breathe again.' Further on is another suggestive couplet: 'So ask not we if she or cares or notes | What passes 'neath those dangling petticoats.' The last four lines read: 'With heavy thud she fills her narrow bed | And on its flannell pillow rests her head | To quit it once but only to assume | Washed & laid out the garments of the tomb'. Beneath the last line is the catch-word 'There'.
Verlag: 7 February Dublin, 1829
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In den WarenkorbWithin a couple of years of his death Norbury's nickname was given as 'the hanging judge' (see 'The Georgian Era', vol.2, 1833), and yet no mention is made of the fact in his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present document is 1p, 4to. On the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged. The declaration, i…n a secretarial hand, reads: 'We, the undersigned, have pleasure in recommending Alexander Hawthorne of Sackville Street, Glover as a person worthy of being honored with the commands of their Excellencies the Most Noble, The Duke & Duchess of Northumberland having known him for many years to be an honest, industrious, respectable tradesman, & one of the best Glove Manufacturers in Dublin'. Beneath this the Bishop of Meath writes: '45 Great Georges Street North / Feby 7th 1829 As far as I have knowledge I believe Alexander Hawthorne of Sackville Street to be an honest Man and a good Tradesman - Nathl: Meath'. And beneath that: 'I know the bearer & know him a respectable Glover - 9 Gardiners row Norbury'. Norbury's signature is largely written and heavily-inked. See Image.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Namur, Belgium, 1733
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In den WarenkorbEphemera. Zustand: Very good condition. An unusual survival of an 18th century swindle and subsequent execution. The manuscript letter is written by Mme de Douglas to an unknown "Monsieur" from Namur (Belgium) dated early January 1733. Mme Douglas was the widow of one of two brothers who inherited their fathers' rich estate from… the East Indies. Upon the brothers' death, in order to prevent the estate being distributed to the daughter of her brother in law, she paid a wet nurse and others to falsify testimony implying that the daughter was illegitimate. The daughter was imprisoned but later found to be not guilty, and the courts in Holland (Belgium) indicted Mme Douglas. Ultimately, "The verdict (was) that she be hanged, and that her 80 year old father be brought onto the scaffoled in order to watch the execution; and her 300,000 florin fortune is not sufficient to save her from her fate." [Translation of an article in "Kurz-gefaßter historischer Nachrichten zum Behuf der neuern Europäischen Begebenheiten auf das Jahr 1735," vol. 45 (November) p. 893. Written in unaccomplished French, bifold, 7 1/4 x 6", 4pp, Translation from French: [From Namur the 1st of Jan 1733 As I learned a few days ago that you also took possession of all the property of your father-in-law, by agreement with your brother-in-law I have the honor to write you these lines, to know if your intention to lodge with me was false, as you assured me of demonstrating the desire if it were up to you, and I assured Monsieur Questand also, agreeable that you appeared to me that we could easily arrange for your interests and mine(.) (I)f you come to Namur it would require us to confer together(.) I am lodging at the moment with Mr Canon Paradis* near St. Aubain, I shall await a response to this letter my compliments if you please to Madame your wife and I wish you both all good wishes in this year that we are beginning according to your desires having the honor to be with a perfect esteem Sir your very humble and very obedient (??) Countess of Douglas] * In 1717 Veselovsky, one of Peter the Great's entourage on his second visit to the Low Countries, lodged in Namur 'chez M. le chanoine Paradis.' See Charles Maroy, 'Les voyages de Pierre le Grand,' L'Expansion Belge 6/4 (1913): 209 [199-211]. Further reference to this case is made in a European history published in Nurnberg in 1744, summarizing important events in European history from 1734 to 1744 (Ref. below). 'How sharply dishonesty is treated in Holland is illustrated by an example in the person of Madame Douglas. There were two Douglas brothers, both married, who received a rich inheritance from the East Indies. One questioned the legitimacy of the inheritance, the other accepted it. The two were so hostile towards each other that guardians had to be appointed. After awhile both brothers died, one of whom was survived by a daughter. Because, however, the other widow wanted the entire fortune for herself and her children, she corrupted a wet-nurse and other witnesses, who finally testified that the child [presumably of the dead brother] was illegitimate. The mother of the child was put in jail, and the sister-in-law received the entire inheritance. After further investigation the imprisoned woman was found not guilty, and the lying of the widow and her false witnesses was exposed. She [the widow] was prepared to pay 300,000 guilders for her life, but Madame Douglas ended up having to pay far more. Her 80 year old father was forced to watch the execution of her daughter on the scaffold, because he had given his daughter the offending attorney Streich. Nine of the false witnesses were beaten with a broom and seven were branded.' [Translation of a passage on pp. 638-639 in Andreas Lazarus von Imhof, Des Neu-eröffneten historischen Bilder-Saals Zehender Theil. Nürnberg, 1744].
