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The martyrdom of Scottish people who ignored a religious observance: four men are hanging together on a scaffold while a group of people is trying to force a naked woman with an infant to climb into a sack for the purpose of being thrown into the river and drowned. Etching by Dodd.
Dodd
Lettering: Engraved for the Revd. Dr. Southwell's New Book of Martyrs. A woman with her sucking infant tied together in a bag, and thrown into a river in Scotland; and four men hung at the same time for eating goose on a fast day. Dodd delin.
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