Paskah Rose

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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^ Wade 2009, p. 21
^ James Bland, The common hangman: English and Scottish hangmen before the abolition of public executions, Henry Publications, 1984, p.159.

Bibliography

Wade, Stephen (2009), Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen, Wharncliffe Books, ISBN 978-1-84563-082-9

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