Note 187 — Chapter IV · THE FOURTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1528, 1529.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
During Henry the Eighth’s reign (1509 to 1547), 72,000 malefactors were, according to Harrison, executed for theft and robbery, making nearly 2000 for each year. Hume, T. IV. p. 275.