Note 424 — Chapter XVI
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Wood, in his Athenæ Oxonienses, Vol. ii. p. 354, says, “when the Executioner pluck’t out his Heart (when his Body was to be quartered), and according to the manner held it up, saying, Here is the Heart of a Traytor, Sir Everard made answer, Thou liest.” This a most famous Author [“Franc. Lord Bacon” says a footnote], mentions, but tells us not his Name, in his Historia Vitæ et Mortis.