Boiling to Death

"Impoysonments, so ordinary in Italy, are so abominable among English, as 21 Hen. 8. it was made high treason, though since repealed; after which the punishment for it was to be put alive in a caldron of water, and there boiled to death: at present it is felony without benefit of clergy." —Chamberlayne's *State of England*,—an old copy, without a title-page. Judging from the list of bishops and maids of honour, I believe the date to be 1669.