Jack Ketch

The hangman has ever since been called Jack Ketch, because a man of that name went hanging and hanging, all day long, in the train of Jeffreys.

A Child's History of England 2007

The hangman has ever since been called Jack Ketch, because a man of that name went hanging and hanging, all day long, in the train of Jeffreys.

A child`s history of England 1852

It was a sort of cooking-room, with an immense fire-place flanked by a couple of cauldrons, and was called Jack Ketch's Kitchen, because the quarters of persons executed for treason were there boiled by the hangman in oil, pitch, and tar, before they were affixed on the city gates, or on London

Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

The hangman has ever since been called Jack Ketch, because a man of that name went hanging and hanging, all day long, in the train of Jeffreys.

A Child's History of England Charles Dickens 1841

Byron thought nothing of Keats -- "Jack Ketch," as he called him.

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

Then a chap comes along -- I s'pose he's called their Jack Ketch -- and he carries a sword that's partly made like a cutlass and partly like a butcher's cleaver, with which he slices off all their heads like so many carrots. "

The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

We shan't have to go any further with the search for clues in this case; but I think I shall have to ask you, my friend, a few little questions in private, and in the interests of a gentleman called Jack Ketch! "

Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

Any son of a biscuit eater deserves to dance with Jack Ketch.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

'I will tell you what I should, under any other circumstances, as soon have thought of telling to--Jack Ketch.'

Charles Dickens and Uriah Heep hradzka 2010

Back in the good old days of public executions, I continued, when Jack Ketch was dangling felons from Tyburn Tree, the Mob would regularly break out into the most glorious displays of drinking and fighting and, most especially, fornicating.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008