Public execution. Facsimile of an engraving in "Praxis Criminalis Persequendi", by Johannes Millaeus, published in Paris in 1541. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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