Note 27 — HISTORY
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Harrison, in Holinshed’s Chron. An instance is recorded in Machyn’s Diary: “1557. The vj day of Aprell was hangyd at the low-water marke at Wapyng be-yond santt Katheryns vij for robyng on the see,” p. 131. According to Hentzner, who visited England about 1598, 300 pirates were hanged yearly in London.