"Here are six guineas for you. Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard that you struck him three or four times. My servant will give you some more gold if you do the work well."

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Executed peopleMilitary leaders from England
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Words addressed to John Ketch the executioner, "a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have succeeded him in his odious office."—T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. 1 (1849) ch. 5