Boiling to death was made a capital punishment in the time of Henry VIII. The Act was occasioned by seventeen persons having been poisoned by Rouse, cook to the Bishop of Rochester, when the offence of poisoning was made treason, and it was enacted to be punished by boiling the criminal T o d ath. Margaret Davis was thus executed for poisoning in 1541.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 956, 28 December 1933, Page 3
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