Taylor, the Water Poet, describes an execution he witnessed in Hamburg in 1616.

The judgment pronounced against a coiner of false money was that he should 'BE BOILED TO DEATH IN OIL; not thrown into the vessel at once, but with a pulley or rope to be hanged under the armpits, and then let down into the oil BY DEGREES; first the feet, and next the legs, and so to boil his flesh from his bones alive.'-- Dr.J.Hammond Trumbull's Blue Laws, True and False, p.

13.
The Famous Stocking Case.
A woman and her daughter, NINE YEARS OLD, were hanged in Huntingdon for selling their souls to the devil, and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings!--Dr.J.Hammond Trumbull's Blue Laws, True and False, p.
20.
NOTE 10, Chapter XVII.

Enslaving.
So young a King and so ignorant a peasant were likely to make mistakes; and this is an instance in point.

This peasant was suffering from this law BY ANTICIPATION; the King was venting his indignation against a law which was not yet in existence; for this hideous statute was to have birth in this little King's OWN REIGN.