CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - BEHEADING - TORTURE The decapitation of William of Pommiers (Guillaume de Pommiers) and his confessor, at Bordeaux in 1377. The beheading took place on the instructions of the King of England's Lieutenant. Lithograph based on an illumination in Froissart;s Chronicles, manuscript No. 2644 in Bibl. Nat., Paris.

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