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See also:KETCH, See also:JOHN (d. 1686) , See also:English executioner, who as " See also:Jack Ketch " gave the See also:nickname for nearly two centuries to his successors, is believed to have been appointed public hangman in the See also:year 1663. The first recorded mention of him is in The Plotters Ballad, being Jack Ketch's incomparable See also:Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants and Wholesome Physick for a Popish Contagion, a See also:broadside published in See also:December 1672. The See also:execution of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William, See also:Lord See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell, on the 21st of See also:July 1683 was carried out by him in a clumsy way, and a pamphlet is extant which contains his " Apologie," in which he alleges that the prisoner did not "dispose himself as was most suitable" and that he was interrupted while taking aim. On the See also:scaffold, on the 15th of July 1685, the See also:duke of See also:Monmouth, addressing Ketch, referred to his treatment of Lord Russell, the result being that Ketch was quite unmanned and had to See also:deal at least five strokes with his See also:axe, and finally use a See also:knife, to sever Mon-mouth's See also:head from his shoulders. In 16861 Ketch was deposed and imprisoned at See also:Bridewell, but when his successor, Pascha See also:Rose, a See also:butcher, was, after four months in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, hanged at See also:Tyburn, Ketch was reappointed. He died towards the See also:close of 1686.
End of Article: KETCH, JOHN (d. 1686)
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