Boiling to Death

Some of your correspondents have communicated instances where burning to death was inflicted as a punishment; and Mr. Gatty suggests that it would prove an interesting subject for inquiry, at what period such barbarous inflictions ceased. In Howe's *Chronicle* I find the two following notices: "The 5th of Aprill (1532) one Richard Rose, a cooke, was boiled in Smithfielde, for poisoning of divers persons, to the number of sixteen or more, at ye Bishop of Rochester's place, amongst the which Benet Curwine, gentleman, was one, and hee intended to have poisoned the bishop himselfe, but hee eate no…