Sir Walter Raleigh Beheaded
10/29/1618 AD executed
Last words to executioner: "Let us dispatch. At this hour my ague comes upon me. I would not have my enemies think I quaked from fear."
Then after seeing the axe that would behead him: "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries." And finally: "Strike, man, strike!"
Subjects Who or What executed?
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James VI and I (James Charles Stuart) King of England/Ireland ...
Objects To Whom or What was executed?
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Walter Raleigh Larger than life buccane...
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