hentic accounts to be met with
of a person being restored to life after execution.

"Walter Eye was condemned in the court of Norwich, and hung, and
appeared dead, but was afterwards discovered to be alive by William,
the son of Thomas Stannard; and the said Walter was carried in a
coffin to the church of St. George's, before the gate of St. Trinity,
where he recovered in fifteen days, and then fled from that church to
the church of the Holy Trinity, and there was, until the king upon
his suit pardoned him."

It was formerly a prevalent idea that felons could only be suspended for
a certain time, but this was not really the case; so far from it, Hale's
"Pleas of the Crown" asserts, "that, in case a man condemned to die, come
to life after he is hanged, as the judgment is not executed till he is
_dead_, he ought to be hung up again."

Another anecdote, extracted from the books of the corporation, bearing a
more recent date, possesses a double interest, from being connected with
a memorable disturbance, dignified in local history by the title of
Gladman's Insurrection, and also from the name and rank of the lady
concerned, who was grand-daughter to Chaucer, the poet, and wife of
William de la Pole, who succeeded to the earldom of Suffolk upon the
death of his brother Michael, A.D. 1415, the second year of the reign of
King Henry V.

The only liberty we shall take with the original account is to slightly
abridge it, and render it in modern orthography.

Item. It was so, that Alice, Duchess, that time Countess of Suffolk,
lately in person came to this city, disguised like a country house-wife.
Sir Thomas Tuddenham, and two other persons, went with her, also
disguised; and they, to take their disports, went out of the city one
evening, near night, so disguised, towards a hovel called Lakenham Wood,
to take the air, and disport themselves, beholding the said city. One
Thomas Ailmer, of Norwich, esteeming in his conceit that the said duchess
and Sir Thomas had been other persons, met them, and opposed their going
out in that wise, and fell at variance with the said Sir Thomas, so that
they fought; whereby the said duchess was sore afraid; by cause whereof
the said duchess and Sir Thomas took a displeasure against the city,
notwithstanding that the mayor of the city at that time being, arrested
Thomas Ailmer, and held him in prison more than thirty weeks without
bail; to the intent thereby bot