Jack Ketch
Although this looks very much like a sobriquet, there seems no
sufficient evidence to believe it to be otherwise than a real proper
name. We are told that the name Jack was applied to hangmen from
Richard Jaquett, to whom the manor of Tyburn once belonged. (See Hangmen.)
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