Talk:Burning of women in England

Redundant material

 * Moved here because I don't think it's particularly relevant:

"A felon's physical appearance and general demeanour while on the scaffold was, to many of those condemned to die, a matter of great importance. While generally, men wore clothing that could be described as sober (unlike Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, who at his own execution in 1760 had worn a white and silver wedding suit), womens' dress was sometimes more cheerful. When asked what she thought might be foremost on the mind of a woman about to be executed, the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry replied "the dress in which she shall be hanged."  Eliza Fenning, executed in 1815 for poisoning, wore "a white muslin worked gown, and a worked muslin cap, bound with white satin riband".  Her appearance was reportedly "very interesting."" Parrot of Doom 12:01, 6 March 2014 (UTC)



Old Bailey (1750-1790)


 * Alice Davis (1758)
 * Margaret Larney (1758)
 * Elizabeth Herring (1773), "indicted for feloniously, traiterously, and of her malice aforethought, making an assault upon Robert Herring, her husband, and with a certain case knife giving him a mortal wound on the right side of the throat, of the length of one inch, and the depth of two inches, of which wound he instantly died, Aug. 5."


 * Mary Bailey (last to be executed for petty treason) 1784

Parrot of Doom 12:03, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

part of the etymology of faggot
Faggot_(slang), alludes to this but I believe burning women with faggots of wood is part of the origins for faggot to refer to gay men. Not sure if this is worth including though. Sportfan5000 (talk) 01:57, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Numbers?
If anyone has any source on how many women were burned, say in a given century, that would be a worthy addition to this article. Are we talking a few dozen, a few hundred, a few thousand? LastDodo (talk) 11:13, 8 October 2020 (UTC)