The Wench Is Dead (23 page)
notes
[1]
A 'fly' boat travels round the clock, with a double crew, taking shifts, with horses exchanged at regular intervals along the canals.
A 'fly' boat travels round the clock, with a double crew, taking shifts, with horses exchanged at regular intervals along the canals.
[2]
Many of the facts in the account used here are taken from the Court Registers of the Oxford Assizes, 1860, and from the verbatim transcript of those parts of the trial reported in Jackson's Oxford Jouarnal, April 1860 (passim).
Many of the facts in the account used here are taken from the Court Registers of the Oxford Assizes, 1860, and from the verbatim transcript of those parts of the trial reported in Jackson's Oxford Jouarnal, April 1860 (passim).
[3]
Burke was a criminal who had been executed some thirty years earlier for smothering his victims and then selling their bodies for medical dissection.
Burke was a criminal who had been executed some thirty years earlier for smothering his victims and then selling their bodies for medical dissection.
[4]
Travels and Talks in the Antipodes, Samuel Carter (Farthinghill Press, Nottingham, 1886).
Travels and Talks in the Antipodes, Samuel Carter (Farthinghill Press, Nottingham, 1886).
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