15th century woodcut showing the massacre of the innocents by Herod the Great, king of Judea, printed by William Caxton ( 1422-1491/92) in his translation of 'The Golden Legend' or 'Thus endeth the legende named in Latyn legenda aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the golden legende' by Jacobus, de Voragine, (Circa 1229-1298).

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