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Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: “Robert King, Robert Debnam, and Nicholas Marsh hanged for taking downe the Rood of Dovercourt.” These three men hang by the chest from separate gallows while a crowd of onlookers, mostly soldiers, stand behind them and three men, including a man of the church, stand is front of them. The destr... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: “The description of the cruell [cruel] Martyrdome [Martyrdom] of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham.” Oldcastle hangs chained from the gallows over an open fire in the Tower of London. He is partially naked and is surrounded by soldiers and civilians. One man holds a whip and others prod the fire.... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: Oldcastle hangs chained from a gallows and suspended over a burning pyre. Workers tend the fire, and a supervisor leads his horse nearby. A large crowd of civilians, clerics, and monks observes; some of these figures express alarm, and others express mockery. This woodcut appears in the first thr... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: “The Death & Martyrdom of Damlip.” Adam Damlip, clothed only in a loincloth, lies on ground after being cut down from hanging by the neck on the gallows above; the rope is still around his neck. His bowels are ripped out by the hands of the executioner, whose axe lies on the ground by Damlip be... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: King, Debnam, and Marsh hang by the chest from three separate gallows. They suffer for allegedly destroying a rood, which burns in the foreground. The cross contains a life-size crucifix and the designation, "IHS" ("J[esus] H[ominorum] S[alvator]" ["Jesus, savior of mankind"]). A crowd of soldier... -
Contributing Institution: Southern Methodist University Bridwell Library and Ohio State University Libraries Description: After cutting Damlip down from a gallows, a guard disembowels him. Damlip lies propped, still living, against the gallows, and a fire burns nearby, ready to consume his entrails. The recently severed noose hangs from Damlip's neck. An official on horseback supervises the execution, and a crowd of...