Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1889 — When the Queen’s Head Was Cut Off. [ARTICLE]

When the Queen’s Head Was Cut Off.

Apropos of the recent articles-on the amount of feeling experienced by a victim of decapitation the following ex* tract describing the execution of the Queen of Scots. from the bulky catalogue will interest scientists: At last, while one of the executioners held hir streightly with one of his hands, the other gave two strokes with an ax before he did cutt (off) hir head, and yet lefte a little grissle bohinde. She made a very small noyse, no part stirred from the place where she laye. The' executioners lifted upp the bead, and bade God save the Queen. Then hir dressinge of laune fell from hir head, which appeared as graye as if shee had been three-score and ten yeares olde, powled very short. Hir face much altred, hir lipps stired upp and downe almost a quarter of an hower after hir head was