England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
Execution of Carew, Peters, Cooke, and the rest. William Smith to John Langley. 1660, Oct. 20.
On Monday [Harrison was executed on the previous Saturday] John Carew died in the same place and manner. On Tuesday despairing Hugh Peters, and John Cooke, the only penitent, were hanged and quartered in the same place. On Wednesday Thomas Scott railing, and Gregory Clements howling, because he said his sin could not be forgiven, died as and where the rest; and an hour after came John Jones, and made no bones either of his fact or fortune, and he with Adrian Scroope, who all along | |
30 | desired the prayers of the people, ended their lives by the same death and in the same place; and now the stench of their burnt bowels had so putrefied the air, as the inhabitants thereabout petitioned his Majesty there might be no more executed in that place; therefore on Friday Francis Hacker, without remorse, and Daniel Axtell who dissolved himself into tears and prayers for the king and his own soul, were executed at Tyburn, where Hacker was only hanged, and his brother Rowland Hacker had his body entire, which he begged, and Axtell was quartered. The rest of the condemned rebels are returned to the Tower till his Majesty and the Parliament resolve what shall be done with them. |