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Pia
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I'm thinking of giving burning a bit of a lift.... drawing on a few fave examples... Clothed, I think the fate of Ann Askew is particularly exciting (hope she felt so too)... racked until all her limbs were dislocated and carried to the stake, where, we may imagine, the seat she was placed on was hardly an arm-chair. Then there's the lovely (I imagine) and young (25) Petronella de Meath, tortured severely then whipped (so at least partially disrobed) around six parishes before going to her stake. Finally, the very slow burning of Alice Arden. She was 'questioned harshly' about her role in the murder of her husband (so we may presume that she was as a minimum strung up and whipped), before being subjected to judicial rape and being fixed (wearing a short, black, sleeveless shift) to her stake with chains, her feet above the ground. It's said her death took at least an hour, wood being added very slowly to the fire. All rather tempting scenarios for me, anyway... but I think the cross still wins!