[Footnote 25: It was once done by the parish priest. (Stowe's Survey of London, p. 195, fourth edition, 1618.)] [Footnote 26: The bequest of Dove appears to have provided for a further pious admonition to the condemned while on the way to execution. It was delivered by the sexton of St Sepulchre's from the steps of that church, a halt being made by the procession for the purpose. This admonition, however, was in fair prose.] [Footnote 27: Thanks to my friend Billy Bennett, of music-hall fame, for his hint for the chapter title.] [Footnote 28: Sophie Dawes, Queen of Chantilly (John Lane, 1912).] [Footnote 29: Lacenaire, the notorious murderer-robber in a biting song, written in prison, expressed the popular opinion regarding Louis-Philippe's share in the Feucheres-Conde affair. The song, called Petition d'un voleur a un roi son voisin, has this final stanza: "Sire, oserais-je reclamer? Mais ecoutez-moi sans colere: Le voeu que je vais exprimer Pourrait bien, ma foi, vous deplaire. Je suis fourbe, avare, mechant, Ladre, impitoyable, rapace; J'ai fait se pendre mon parent: Sire, cedez-moi votre place."] [Footnote 30: Or, simply, kermes--a pharmaceutical composition, containing antimony and sodium sulphates and oxide of antimony--formerly used as an expectorant.]