Show AT AN EXECUTION of malefactors in england in year 1663 bin the early days of public execl pone it was no uncommon thing for pe condemned man to be hanged on be scene of the crime or even at bis lome mr attended such a spectacle on jan 21 1663 tor we read pe following entry in his diary yup and after sending my wife to 17 aunt wrights to get a place to turner hanged I 1 to the change nd seeing people flock in the city I 1 and found that turner was ot yet hanged so I 1 went among liem to street at the end t lyme street near where the rob ery was done and to 4 mary axe chere he lived and there I 1 got tor a hilling to stand upon the wheel of a art in great pain above an hour be ore the execution was doce he delay ig the time by long discourses and one after another in hopes t a reprieve but none came and at 1st was flung off the ladder in his boak A comely 1001 ing man he was nd kept his countenance to the end was sorry to see him it was bellev d there were at least 12 or 14 peo ie in the street |