Note 832 — SCENE IV.
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Brandon] From a tract dated 1649, and entitled The Last Will and Testament of Richard Brandon, &c. (the executioner who is supposed to have beheaded King Charles the First: see Ellis’s Letters Ill. of Engl. Hist. vol. iii. p. 341, Second Series), we learn that “he was the only son of Gregory Brandon, and claimed the Gallows by inheritance,” p. 7. The Brandon mentioned in the text was probably Gregory.