Paskah Rose (died 28 May 1686), also known as Pascha Rose, was an English executioner briefly during 1686, successor to Jack Ketch.[1]
Rose was a butcher by trade. He had been Ketch's assistant during the period of the Bloody Assizes. When Ketch was imprisoned for "affronting" a London sheriff, Rose was appointed in his place. A few months after taking over Rose was arrested for robbery, after he and another man had broken into the house of a William Barnet and stolen "a Cambler coat and other apparrel".[2] He was hanged at Tyburn on 28 May 1686, following which Ketch was reinstated for the remaining few months of his life.
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Bibliography
- Wade, Stephen (2009), Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen, Wharncliffe Books, ISBN 978-1-84563-082-9
Further reading
edit- Old Bailey Proceedings Online, Trial of Paskah Rose, Edward Smith. (t16860520-24, 20 May 1686).
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