Note 636 — Chapter XL · CRIME.
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Misson gives a far longer account, full of detail, of an execution in those days. He says: 'Hanging is the most common Punishment in England. Usually this Execution is done in a great Road[636] about a quarter of a League from the Suburbs of London. The Sessions for trying Criminals being held but eight Times a Year, there are sometimes twenty Malefactors to be hang'd at a Time.