Note 325 — BOOK I.
Reading edition
Mr. Hales points out to me the following reference to the superstition in Marlowe's Jew of Malta, act iii.:—
"Friar Jacomo. Why, what has he done? Friar Barnardine. A thing that makes me tremble to unfold. Jac. What, has he crucified a child? Bar. No, but a worse thing; 'twas told me in shrift; Thou know'st 'tis death, an if it be reveal'd."
Dyce in his note quotes from Reed a reference to Tovey's Anglio Judaica, where instances of such crucifixion are given.