The BRUTAL Child Execution Of Henry VIII's 11 Year Old Victim
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- Throughout the reign of King Henry VIII, there were 70,000 executions that occurred inside of England. The Tudor monarch had many people hanged, drawn and quartered and even had two of his own wives executed inside the walls of the Tower of London. But one of the most shocking executions to take place was of an 11 year old girl named Alice Glaston. Inside the market town of Much Wenlock, Alice Glaston was brought to a scaffold where she was executed alongside two other men. But she was just a child when this happened, and was 11 years old.
But the Tudor laws stated that anyone over the age of 7 could be held criminally responsible, but Alice's crimes have been lost to history. Much of the information regarding her execution and arrest is a mystery, and besides the fact she was executed by hanging with 2 men little is known. She may have been linked to a murder or to arson, or she may have also been accused of witchcraft as this was greatly feared during the Tudor times. England did have a dark history with executing children, but Alice Glaston is considered a forgotten victim of Henry VIII.
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Charles Dickens describes Henry as a "Stain of grease and blood on the history of England". Well put.
I did not know that! Thank you. And spot on!
More like a skid mark
( the kind you find in a child’s underwear
yeah but look at the black plague an how it wiped out 75 percent of europe. so a stain of grease and blood on english history. at least the united kingdom evolved the way it did. or you probably would not be alive here today.
I can't believe England's stupid monarchy survived thru his reign and still to today that old queen just died. Having these royals in 2022 is so dumb and back then that they can do all this evil shot and get away with it!
And yet he was the creator of the church, the same church that honored him as the head, forbade King Edward from marrying his sweetheart
children were still hung for stealing things like an apple or loaf of bread up until only 200 years ago in ENgland, they were dreadful times, these days if a child stole a loaf of bread we would all try to help the child to find out why they are hungry. People complain about modern society but its a hell of alot better then the past
Yeah, now we just let criminals go so they can steal, rob and murder again. So much better!
That's why I don't wander around touting "those were the good old days." There is none no better than the present.
We might not hang children for stealing anymore, but we still have starving children. Not something we should be proud of even if its "better" than 200 years ago, its seems like a silly comparison for you to make tbh. You don't seem in touch at all
We're still subjugated by the descendants of Henry VIII though
At least the planet was not at risk of either nuke destruction or heat
I'm reading a book on the history of the Tudors, very interesting but what a cruel, murdering bastard Henry the eighth was 😡
what the name of the book?
I would like to know the name of the book too
It will be interesting to read the history books in 100 yrs or so about our times…
Amongst many other things that you have not stated and he was A horrible father and I'm happy that hes not alive.
@@moniboo523 There is a brilliant 7 book series by Peter Ackroyd called The History Of England, one of which focuses on the Tudor Period.
I recall seeing a list of people condemned to death as recently as the 19th century. Two 13 year old girls and worse a 6 year old boy, guilty of stealing bread, were among them. There is no record if they were hanged or transported to a colony. But even to consider a starving 6 year old.
Unlikely they would have been hanged, more likely transportation would be their punishment.
No worse than what the Windsors have done.
Our history books in 100 +yrs will be interesting,
Even today kids are starving! I really hope we don’t bring back the death penalty! Its not beyond possibility the last Home Secretary was a fan of it!!
@debbie Rowlett stop whitewashing
While in college in the 1970's I read about a starving 8-year-old orphan boy in 1708 who was hanged by an English judge for stealing a roll from a bakery. My view of English jurisprudence changed for ever.
And to think, they said they were ordained by god to go into the world to "civilize savages" 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤮
Right. And they are still executing children there!!
You can’t judge people from last centuries by our own standards. Every single country in the world had cruel penalties for what they considered criminals. England is not special in that regard.
@@wplains It may have always been this way, but people today just seem so insufferably arrogant in sitting in judgment of previous generations. And they will be judged, themselves, one day.
@@glennhubbard5008 I totally agree. Most people are unbelievably ignorant and know nothing about history.
As a young man King Henry was known for his easy going nature and sense of humour . However following being thrown from his horse and being unconscious for some days , apon regaining conscious his personality changed dramatically . Now I am not apologizing for him , but recent historians have suggested brain trauma causing a change of personality . He certainly became very short tempered and paranoid .
It’s very possible. We see and understand the effects of TBI now especially with combat vets, athlete who play full contact sports and accident victims. Hell Sam Kinison and Roseanne Barr both sustained brain injuries which greatly changed their personalities.
Yes. He changed from being Defender of the Faith to being Defender of the Wealth.
@@thegreenman2030 think also very possible,but from another perspective ,Henry and his daughter Elizabeth 1 are possibly the two most outstanding, rulers we ever had Queen Elizabeth 1 allowed her sailors to die in the ship's after the armada rather than pay them off ,but changed the face of Britain forever
He was injured in a jousting accident, a very brutal sport, and as you say bye did appear to undergo a change in personality, he had open ulcers on his legs which were hugely painful and periodically became infected, leading to sepsis, as a result of this happening as the wounds started to heal, his physicians decided to not allow the wounds to close and seal infection in, so his wounds were opened with red hot pokers!!!! I don't imagine that helped his mood much either. As stated before, he was a very unpredictable and ill tempered King.
The irony is that Henry's father would not let him joust out of fear his only heir would be seriously injured or killed. After the death of his elder brother and the heir Arthur (who was married to Henry 8th first wife) Henry 7 became overprotective of Henry 8, this likely led to Henry 8th being over the top with his jousting once he was king because he was keen to prove himself as valiant & chivalrous & make up for the lost time. A self-fulfilling prophecy?
Poor girl, I can only imagine the terror she experienced.
Have you also imagined the terror she might have caused for which she was hanged? Have you never seen cruel and heartless kids yet? I have.
Peeps could be evil too you just dont know,in was hard life.They coul d defend the kingdom,but terrible people.Pitbull .Poe
Imagine? then your not looking at your previous lifetimes...
Not able to imagine the fear she was forced to endure for days and nights, awaiting her execution, in the company of adults who would no doubt have their sexual needs satisfied. She was to be executed anyway so didn't matter back in the 17th century.
@@paulsypersma7165 the knights were the defenders of the kingdom, many were not very noble and would put villages under their protection provided the villagers met their needs.
Henry Tudor was a nutjob. He was scared of his own shadow and as a result he killed anyone that dared made him feel inferior as a man or ruler. His intense jealousy over Anne was used against him and that is why it was so easy for Cromwell to convince Henry of her infidelity even though she was always faithful to Henry, she was the one that brought the Prayer books to England and made sure every household had one. She was deeply religious and always had been in spite of her sisters and mothers reputations for being immoral women that made mistresses of themselves to high ranking men including Nobels and of course Kings. Anne was determined not to be looked down upon as a whore but in the end Cromwell made sure to sully her good name with the help of liars such as Lady Rochford Jane Parker (Goerge Boleyn''s vindictive wife.) Henry's obsession with having a son overrode his common sense and when he fell off his horse during a Jousting Tourament and suffered a concussion that made him far worse in fact, he became a tyrant. He only cared about himself at the end of his life once he'd had Anne Boleyn beheaded his act of being so in love with Jane Seymour was exactly that. All he wanted from her was a son. After that was acheived he never pushed any of his future wives to conceive a son. Yet he still managed to Divorce one, Behead another and only by the grace of God did Catherine Parr survive his reign of terror.
I do know that many children even before little Alice was hanged were exacuted alone with their families for various religious reasons. First by Catholic Preist who felt that the entire family had to be cleansed by fire in order to save their souls to those deemed traitors of the crown and entire familes were killed. Many burned at the stake. Henry's reign towards the latter part of his life of fraught with fear and torment of his own people. He managed to kill 68k people in his lifetime. The only reason anyone even remembers this man is because of his brutality and the senseless exacution of his most imfamous wife, Anne Boleyn.
Good comment. He also had a serious leg injury in that jousting accident. I don't know if it's true, but supposedly Anne Boleyn, laughed when she heard what the charges were, including incest.
One of the earliest snowflakes.
@@carolr9581 I can imagine her not thinking they were serious because she knew she wasn't guilty of anything. He actually did get his leg injured during jousting but it was also an old injury he had gotten as a younger man that he reinjured that same day so it never healed and he suffered with pain and sometime agony every day. It would get infected and the doctors would need to drain it so often that his leg started to rot. Not doubt that in the end that's what killed him. He had to have sepsis running all through his veins.
@@Meriale46 I didn't know he was injured when he was younger. Thanks for that info.
His diabetes surely contributed to his mental instability
Execution of a 11 year old child is what you call cruel and unnusual punishment.
Henry boiled a cook for giving people food poisoning. He was only crule and unusual.
Henry the VIII was brutal.
People can be amazingly kind and good, or astoundingly cruel and spiteful.
Humans have a propensity for making death as grisly and bizarre as possible for the viewing public. The more blood that is spilt and screams of the dying victims the more the crowds would cheer and demand more. The Roman Circus in the coliseum would be a good example of having unarmed Christians against lions or gladiators in the arena.
@@DavidHalverson Psychopathic humans, that is and there have been and are a lot of them, unfortunately.
Poor little girl. So sad
I normally love your videos, but here you just spend 7 minutes basically saying 'We think an 11 year old was hung in a small town 500 years ago. May or may not have been part of a wider criminal gang but really we have no idea what she was hung for, who hung her, or any details whatsoever.'
Probably scraping the bottom of the barrel for historic executions to talk about now.
Thank heavens I scrolled through the comments and found yours!
I'm already halfway and am being impatient who she was and what was she hung for.
Too bad this is my first time on this channel and this nonsense is what I clicked on to.
Thanks for saving me the time.
And the title implied that the king had a personal hand in her death, but really it was just his policies and he probably never even saw or heard of her. There were some interesting facts in there, but it wasn't what I expected.
Yeah this video was literally a 7 minute video of we don’t know who she is, what she did or why she was hanged but we do know she was a Tudor era child. You could of condensed that into a 1-2 minute video!😂
We only have to look at recent events in Iraq and Syria in respect to child executions and executioners
Wonderful countries where the children are sexually raped in the jails by the guards and inmates, then executed by beheading so they will not be allowed to enter Paradise.
To be hanged, drawn and quartered became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352 under King Edward III (1327-1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216-1272). The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces). His remains would then often be displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge, to serve as a warning of the fate of traitors. For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake.
They tied their arms and legs to 4 horses and on signal pulled them off while alive the executioner would swing at the midsection vertically
Sounds charming.
@@WindTurbineSyndrome - Yes, that followed the initial act of being drawn ( dragged to the initial scene of the upcoming torture, on a rope and hurdle behind a horse) The grisly punishment ( being drawn) included the drawing of the convicted to the gallows, often by horse, the hanging of the body until near death, disembowelment and castration, followed by the beheading of the body, and finally the quartering of the corpse, or the division of the bodily remnants into four pieces. The punishment was carried out in public, with the ridicule of the crowd adding to the criminal's suffering. The convicted would then be hanged by the neck for a short time or until almost dead. In most cases, the condemned man would be subjected to the short drop method of hanging, so that the neck would not break. He was then dragged alive to the quartering table. “That you be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution where you shall be hanged by the neck and being alive cut down, your privy members shall be cut off and your bowels taken out and burned before you, your head severed from your body and your body divided into four quarters to be disposed of at the King’s pleasure.” Yes, you can be quartered by 4 horses that are tied to each arm and leg, also by an axe that chops up the body into quarters while on a quartering table, also by two trees strategically bent and arched while tied to the body, which when cut will tear the body into pieces, or even into quarters, eventually, there is the method of the wheel which can assist swords to quarter the body, and a method of tying a body to 4 ships which will eventually tear a body into quarters. Yes, these are the means that were used against people by executioners. They are all considered cruel and unusual in this day and age. However, this was usually done in front of a crowd, as they had very little other regular means of daily entertainment and this served as such at that time.
This brings to mind which one of the 2 is the better of 2 evils both types of execution is barbaric
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Henry VIII was pure evil, he didn't have blood he had ice in his veins.
Yeah! The Royal family come from such great stock!
He was insane and full of veneral diseases..
@@davidmoore1477 If you are referring to the House of Windsor, a different stock than the Tudors.
@@kevinbergin9971 You mean the Saxe-Gotha's (like the WW1 German bomber).
@@kevinbergin9971 You do of course mean Saxe Coburg?
Jeez...executing children!!?? My nephew who is 10, I CANNOT imagine such brutality to him, let alone any child..I know it was a different time and I'm looking at it through the eyes of our time...but damn is that brutal
But that's the point. It was brutal and senseless even by that time standards . That's why it was called the Bloody Code.
The Isis crucify children for not fasting during Ramadan, and hero's executed innocent boys to save his throne, a baby was executed during the Salem witch trials because some idiot claimed she was a witch and innocent children were killed by Hitler for being the wrong race.
He was a man of his time, of course it was brutal. Move onto the Victorians and young boys were sent up chimneys, down mines, and young children worked in mills. That is history, unfortunately in certain countries things haven't changed.
It was a brutal time in a very brutal world. Even children were meant to be like grown ups.
No childhood for most....usually work ....with only the rich getting an education.
Many a 10 year old boy would be sent to workhouses if they had no parents to look after them in the 18th century. It was not unusual for a 10 year old boy to be paid with food and lodging by funeral homes to attend in funerals for children, they would walk ahead of the coffin. However, steal a bun or an apple, and its off to the gallows to be hanged. It was just the way society was back in the early centuries, children and women had no rights, and it was easier and less costly to simply eliminate the problem child than to have to feed, cloth, and house them in a jail.
Strange to see that this man was ONCE one of the most loved people in his era, then he changes to that...
It was a despicable era to live in, how anyone survived that time is amazing in of its self
The whole Tudor period was bad. Understandable when you consider them a line of paranoid usurpers who founded an illegitimate dynasty forever at risk of counter-revolution.
a dark vile heritage
Henry was a true monster
Look at what a difference there is in the monarchy between Henry VIII and QE2. And the fact that people protest against the current monarchy is laughable.
The monarchy's power over life and death and doing what the hell they pleased was ended fortunately. Although it did take something called the civil war to change things and give the common people like you and I some rights. So don't give them too much credit for not being so bloodthirsty these days.
she must have been so very frightened
Just when you think he can’t get any shittier as a human.
man killed his wives, his best friends, his people, boiled a man to death and killed an 11 year old. What a psycho. I wished he was tried for treason
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is nothing compared to what has gone on, and continues to go on today, in Muslim countries
Amazingly ignorant statement
Clickbait title. Although there's no doubt some children were executed under cruel laws in the past, this case doesn't seem to be a definite example.
Rev Thomas Butler records:
"Here was buried John Dod of the parish of Little Wenlock, who was hanged here, as also Alice Glaston, 11 yrs of age, of the parish of Little Wenlock, and Wm. Harper, a tailor."
-And later:
"Three Convicts buried; one a girl of 11 years old."
That is ambiguous; it could mean that only Dod was hanged, and the other two died (e.g. of disease in prison), before all three were buried.
Is there any other surviving record of Alice Glaston or the crime of Harper?
I would read that as they were all hanged.
What happened was Alice would lay in the middle of Witchwell Lane and waylay wayfarers who were making their way to market. She would pretend she was injured so that the unsuspecting farmer would step down from his cart. No sooner had the good samaritan reached the crying girl, than John Dod and William Harper would step out of the shadows and bludgeon the poor guy into a stuper, robbing him of his trousers, purse and anything else that was regarded as vaulable.
@@KebabMusicLtd - Was Alice a willing participant in highway robbery or was she forced to act as bait in these ambushes under extreme pressure from Dod and Harper? If she acted under extreme duress, it should have saved her from the gallows.
@@KebabMusicLtd What's the source for this story?
What a disgiusting monarch Henry was and what disgisting crimes he committed!
TLDR: 11 year old Alice Glaston was hanged, we don't know why, and Henry VIII, who was king at the time, had nothing to do with it.
it would of been a felony most likely larceny
fun fact : today most larcenies today are charged as summary offences and thief usually never get any prison time
Henry VIII may not have been directly responsible for Alice Glaston's death (who really knows) but he sure was aware and responsible for setting the age limit of a death sentence to 7 years of age. That alone is despicable and makes him an accomplice.
Yeah it happens like that now thanks to the French Revolution. Where they didn’t appreciate that they were going to prison for being hungry enough to break the law.
Hanging a 11 year old girl , sick bxxtards !!!
@@szk4023 Why should a child not receive the same punishment for a crime? Don't wanna die, don't commit the crime. Once again we have people like you caring more for criminals.
Evil Tudor king: evil Tudor family.
Something you havent considered is that the Parish record records 3 burials, not three hangings .. merely that one man was hanged and then buried, a girl was buried and a tailor was buried that day. This whole thing may never have happened at all. Other evidence is needed
Good point. The parish burial mentions the criminal “who was executed here” following which was also mentioned the girl and the tailor. Only one person is actually mentioned as having been definitively executed.
11 year old girls don't normally just drop dead. In all likelihood she was executed possibly by hanging.
One of the funny things is that during Henry's reign King Richard 111, was vilified for allegedly killing his nephews. Looking at the history of the Tudors they more likely killed by Hrnry V11.
Use Roman numerals, rather than numbers. Richard III, not Richard one hundred eleven, and Henry VII, not Henry V eleven.
Henry didn't kill the princes in the tower, he wasn't king until nearly 100 years later, and the boys disappeared well before that.
@@howardsmith9342 Henry 7th was king from Richards death. 1485, he had motive and opportunity.
@@davidthomas4282 The boys had disappeared before Henry took the throne.
I'm watching Lucy Worsley right now, and there is speculation that the boys got out of the tower and eventually challenged Henry VII's claim to the throne, and he took care of the problem. Other speculation is that the boys were suffocated in their beds in the tower. We may never know.
It still shocks me that people vilify his daughter Mary as bloodthirsty....Henry killed about 2000 people per year of his reign (not to mention the soldiers killed in his glory-seeking wars, or the people who dies because of his greedy policies), yet Mary, who killed less than 400 over the course of her tenure is called "Bloody Mary". The executions that she ordered were certainly vile, but she probably wholeheartedly believed that heretics were lost souls who needed purifying. The executions were very public in an attempt to scare others back to the "true path". She should be pitied for having been so completely brainwashed by the Roman Catholic money-grabbing machine. Anyone who follows history should have seen a much more egregious massacre in France at about the same time, over the same BS. Religion has a lot to answer for.
You answered you're own question. She was vilified because she was a Catholic.
What do you suggest, change her name to Slightly Less Bloody Mary?
Your last sentence is only too true. Religion and politics ,no greater bunch of hypocrites.
elizabeth was just as bloody as mary during her reign, it was just over 40 years
Ummm no, the people who practice religion have a lot to answer for.
How truly both shocking and tragic.
without knowing what she did how can you judge, it wasnt that long ago two 10yr olds kidnapped and murdered a toddler then threw the body on a railway line in hopes of hiding what they did. locals were out for blood and still are as far as those 2 are concerned
Well, considering she was 11 and it was midevial England, there is a huge possibility she did nothing more than take food because she was hungry, or very wrongly accused of witchcraft.
Wasn't there a case exactly like that back in England in the 90s but it was one older boy that took the toddler from a shopping center to a train track?
It is extremely upsetting to think of how James Bulger suffered, but it does not altar the fact that Thompson and Venables were children. The people banging on the door of the police van, shouting''Give them to us. We will kill then'', were not good role models for us.
Well, they. Convicted Trump of 34 things nobody understands.
Unusual that the crime she was punished for isn't known!
Not unusual. They were kangaroo courts and most of the judges didn't care to know the name of the defendant. Plus, it is very rare that without preservation the log book would have survived 500 years. Also, considering how many people were executed under Henry and Mary Tudor, the log would be 3 feet thick.
@@katemaloney4296 You have forgotten ER I.
Her aunt who was raising her, was accused of being a witch. So Aunt and child were grouped together and jailed then burned.
It's not always what you done but what you seen prominent people doing.
It wasn’t Bloody Mary but more appropriately Bloody Henry!!!!!!!
I agree
I saw a show a few years back about an 11 year old girl being hanged around that time period and I think it was for witchcraft Her name stands out in my mind and if I remember correctly she was imprisoned with her grandmother who died in prison before the trial It was a British program but I don't remember which channel made the show
I think you're on about the Pendleton Which Trials, which happened during the reign of King James 1 of England and sixth of Scotland.
Yes, I was thinking of the Pendleton witch trials too.
Correct, yore thinking of the programme, The Pendle Witch Child, so called after the Pendle witch trials, I think it might be here on You Tube.
Wait didn't that girl start the whole thing to begin with and then screw over her family by lying about them doing witchcraft?
@@OpinionatedChicken59 That was exactly what happened It was the Pendleton witch trials that happened in the 1600s At first I thought it was the same case
Thomas Cromwell was actually shown considerable kindness by Henry VIII by the standards of the day. By rights, as a commoner convicted under the Treason Act (1351, Edward III), he should have been hanged, drawn and quartered. Death by beheading, normally reserved for senior nobility, was considered more merciful.
Even though the disgraceful killing of this child took place during the reign of Henry VIII, the law under which it took place were probably a couple of centuries old by then.
Henry was well known for "commuting" sentences of hanging, drawing and quartering for men, or burning at the stake for women to simple hanging. As was his daughter Elizabeth, but not the fanatical Bloody Mary.
I would be surprised if Henry the 8th called for the execution of Alice Glaston. Yet I did wonder if he could have cancelled it? That would have been really humane. (Assuming he really knew about it.)
As mentioned, 70,000 people were executed during his reign. He clearly didn't care.
Could be a case where Alice Glaston refused King Henry VIII's advances and so it was off to the gallows.
@@DavidHalverson
Yep; a case of Alice in Blunderland, only one of many.
Absolutely shocking. I'm glad I didn't live then.
Oh it’s much worse now. All those millions of missing kids
Modern times aren't exactly better.
@@jrt2792 modern times (ie., 20th and 21st Century) are simply the same as other centuries in the past, just things are done more humane and with a sense of decency. We ended the town centre killings of criminals every Saturday which was an enjoyable afternoon event back in the 16th century. Best to stand right up by the gallows so you get splashed with the blood as the prisoner gets his head cut off.
I can't help but think of the disgusting smell people used to talk about after having spent time in his presence due to his ulcerated leg
Henry was such a brutal monster, this poor little girl.
Some of the witches at Salem were around that age, so it is a safe assuption the charge was witch craft.
The reason that "witches" were hung rather than burnt in Salem and Scotland was that hanging was the execution ordered by the state. On the continent of Europe (Catholic) the "witches" were burnt alive, unless someone in mercy, killed (strangled) them first. In medieval Catholocism, the phrase was no shedding of blood (meaning, burned alive). An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 people, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, were tried for witchcraft in the James VI period, a much higher rate than for neighbouring England. AfterJames became king of England, he found England less amenable to his crusade. James was fairly impressively educated, One of his languages was Latin. He seems to have obsessed on Malleus Maleficarum, and to have studied in religiously. The Salem Witch trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
I'd like to think that Henry's peope wereafraid of more than they loved and respected him
Henry the Eight executed 70000 people. Think about that as the population of England during his reign of 38 years was only about 3,000,000,
I’ve read a whole lot about Henry VIII and never saw anything about him killing an 11 year old girl. What’s great about modern information sources is that a more well rounded wealth of information is available. Even though that comes with a lot more disinformation, it’s still great.
Lost records of the court proceedings which usually occurred due to fire is common in the past with candles being used for light. Or the documents being eaten by rats since the documents would be stored usually underneath the courthouse or church.
The most criminals are the people who have "the power" ....
Yeah this was literally a 7 minute video of we don’t know who she is, what she did or why she did it or why she was hanged but we do know she was a Tudor era child. You could of condensed that into a 1-2 minute video!😂
It takes some people 7 minutes to say something that could be said in 2 minutes. Any some of them become youtube content creators :P...
2 minutes that would have zero context and background of what was happening.
The more I learn about the Tudor monarchy the more I’m shocked and saddened.
@ken parvu Agreed! I always double check the facts that I hear and see. I’m actually surprised by the factual documentation left from that time period although we’ll never know what Alice was convicted but does it really matter? She was 11
All monarchy should be abolished.
Capital punishment serves only one, the main, purpose. There is no recidivism.
It's also a bargaining tool to get prisoners to confess to their crimes, and to plead guilty in some cases.
She was 11.
Henry the VIII was a truly evil man with blood on his hand.
The Tudors, especially Henry VIII, Mary I and Elizabeth I were some of the most brutal monarchs ever. Because of their weak claim to the throne, anyone who stepped out of line was executed. Men, women, children, the clergy, the disabled, nobody was safe.
What a monster and unfortunatley he was not the only monarch like this.
There was nothing really unusual about that in Tudor Henry's kingdom. People could be hung for vagrancy or even being jobless... as with the 'sturdy beggars.' You have to understand that the majority of people would have been dirt poor.
It was easier to simply eliminate the individual than to house them, give them a paying employment, or educate them.
I understand that people did mature earlier then, they had to. However, it is hard to think an 11 year old could truly know what she was involved with, especially if it was witchcraft.
Yes, performing magic is always a no no
People only "matured earlier" in terms of life responsibilities and expectations. While I know it wasn't meant that way in the comment, they didn't mature earlier physically.
Mature is a relative term. By eleven years old, she was nearing the middle of her life expectancy. Still far too young for such a fate.Throughout history, childhood has been a dear and too often short a period.
Today, it seem to last into ones thirties.
You do realize no people condemned for Witchcraft was actually a Witch.
Humanity knows no bounds in the pretending of their own self righteousness.
This feels like listening to a sixth grade report written the night before it was due. Lots of redundancy and speculation. Some facts, frequently repeated, in slightly rewritten sentences.
A monster of the past
when henry fell in the joust, he suffered CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), which has been found in very contact driven sports: boxing, football, soccer, etc. Henry displayed all of the signs after the fall and subsequent unconciousness...what a shame...if that hadn't happened, who knows what he could have accomplished.
The Bloody Code was centuries after Henry.
By 1545 Henry had completely descended into a total tyrant. Poor girl.
this had nothing to do with him ! it was the sheriff that would of arrested and charged her , the grand jury then finding a true bill of indictment then tried at the local assizes
@@geezerp1982 I know but in his reign, there were 72,000 executions. He set a trend of cruel law enforcement. This girl was another victim of it.
He was a psychopath.
Humans can be really cruel :(
Horrible evil people...
I would like to know where I could find written evidence of such atrocities committed by this King?
Henry the 8th, worthy of heaven? nah apparently not
The poor child might have been the victim if some perv who, upon being caught or accused, could have said the girl was a witch and had cast a spell on him which made him act that way. I think that's probable in that day and age.
Imagine being her parents…
It wasn't ONLY Tudor England!
Children were executed clear up to the beginning of the 19th century!
BTW, executions ALWAYS drew a crowd, being a major form of entertainment, right up till they started performing them behind prison walls. The more "unusual" the subject(s), the bigger the crowd
Oh, and Henry, probably, never even HEARD of Alice, just as he never heard of the vast majority of executed "felons" during his reign
And in the good ole US of A they did it to a 14yo in 1944!😧. Just look at this
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney
all felonies were capital crimes until the 1830s !
felonies and misdemeanors were replaced in 1967 with indictable and summary offences
Australia was still publicly hanged criminals up to the 1850s and NZL was the same,when public opinions started going against...they hanged them up to the 60s behind prison walls,and they still flogged with the 'Cat' up to the 60s,ah British justice..
@@chris_ackroyd:
Read your article. How close did you read it? Stinney could've done it, and had a history of violent threats on girls at school. And if not it wouldn't be the first case of miscarried justice, nor the last. And that applies to Whites as well as Blacks. It can be a horrible outcome but it has happened. And there are times when an otherwise guilty person is found not guilty at a later date only by some legal technicality. As there are times when the guilty are not convicted the first time due to insufficient evidence or overly sympathetic juries or legal technicalities. ¨Good ole US of A¨ has its history like any country, good and bad?
I remember reading about a 9 year old girl being hanged for the theft of 2/6p (12 1/2 pence) worth of paint in around about 1810 in Cornwall England.
I don't understand the title of the video. Henry VIII was a tyrant but he was not directly responsible for all the executions in England.
Yes. Very misleading.
It's called click bait.
Well ignorance it's said is no excuse.The book stops with this guy.Did he ever question or put a legal age,looks like No
This is WHY this era is called the Mid-evil times, even the Renaissance time is still considered Mid-evil times.
it's actually medieval....which translates as "middle ages".... but I get what you mean
I'm wondering if the girl had an illegal Bible. The Catholic authorities wouldn't hesitate to hang or torch you for possessing a Bible. Henry VIII is reported to be equally happy whether Catholics were hanging or Protestants. Henry didn't like unauthorized religious activity but I've not seen anything about his attitude towards Bible possession.
Bible possession was not scorned by Catholics, utter rubbish.
There weren’t readily available Bibles back then…
@@graceg3250 Yes there were. John Wycliffe was producing English language versions in the late 1300's in Belgium. If you're saying BIbles weren't available at every bookstore then yes, but Wycliffe wasn't the only one printing Bibles for the English market through the 1400s well into the 1500s.
I really like the videos they make, informative and interesting, but pleas teach the narrator how to speak properly, it is so hard and exhausting to listen to him. I like the tone of his voice, no doubt, but the way he speaks only on one note, and always repeating like a constant wave hitting the shore is very hard to listen to. Your vids are greate, no doubt, but please, dear narrator, take voice acting lessons!
The title is a bit misleading.
Ah, the good ol' days, when children were held accountable for their heinous acts, like stealing a crust of bread.
As an Aussie I remember a story we were all told about a young convict on the first fleet who was sentenced to come to Australia because he stole a loaf of bread in England
This is what rich people do they change the laws to suit them
A 14 year old black boy was sent to the electric chair in the US back at 1941 not back in the 16th century
That has nothing to do with this video.
@@MrTruth-ib5ce it has by all means, showing that children execution is still with us, in modern USA at the year 1944 (not 41 which was my mistake)
Ahh the good ol’ days
Yes true poor boy, disgusting.
There are few in history that are roasting in hell quite like Henry 8
How any commoners are still royalists is baffling. Other than ignorance of the murderous, sadistic history of royalty.
Henry-VIII's soul is now being feasted upon by the devils in hell, he did not died peacefully and was in great pain,
too afraid to look into the eye's of Christ because he knows he's guilty of mass murders and that his lone soul would not be enough to pay for the crimes that he has committed with his rule
No desire to defend Henricus Ye 8, but this doesn't seem to be a personal crime of the monarch. It was more that the legal system available at the time processed a young child, for reasons that we do not understand and about which we should want to know more.
Not his victim but a victim of that time
History for Millennials. Let's all squeal together about brutal Tudor times while watching a grossly inaccurate piece of click bait. I can;t even be bothered to list the errors in this clap trap, too numerous . I shall know to avoid in the future.
Executing children then , was normal nothing to do with Henry .
Why 'Bloody Mary' not 'Bloody Henry' when he killed thousands more than she did??
Outrageous.
Wow I didn’t know that,I live in much wenlock,was born here and that’s the first time I’ve heard this story. Thank you for sharing ❤
I always like your work!
This was the social equivalent of going to the movies.
Brutal, cruel, sadistic, and very ignorant times.
What is a "fret against the king"???
Enjoy that Estuary accent version of "Threat"
@@ichiroakuma7311 Nothing to do with the accent . The poor diction and pronunciation is the issue . He needs to learn to speak English . Instead of "Iveronics"
Maybe he was hit by a guitar. Anyway no use fretting about it I guess :-)
@@Johnny_Seven It was a free "air guitar"........No strings attached ................... I guess too .
Henry VIII was a petty monster!!! And Cromwell dug 1 grave for Anne Boleyn when he should have been digging 2 (as the same narcissistic king who had Anne put to death had him put to death)... My Mom said "If you're going to dig 1 grave (for someone else), you'd better dig 2 (for your own sneaky self)...
Megan Markle would have lost her head.
He was a monster. I wonder how history could have been different if his older brother Arthur had lived.
I hate that him being king supposedly makes this something other than child murder. If he answered to the law today, he would have multiple life sentences for his crimes against women and children.
Henry beloved son died by an horrible death a sickness that destroyed his lungs,
So you don't know what she had been found guilty of, because the courts records don't exist any more, but go on to mention some crimes which carried the death sentence back then before stating she was a victim. That's supposition on your behalf.
So youre ok with child executions?
Probably stealing food during a time of local famine... Stealing someone else's food during scarcity is Very serious, the judiciary takes a very dim view of the crime, if one isn't lynched upon discovery.... "Just a loaf of bread". But that is some other family's loaf of bread for their starving children. The three might not have been connected, other than they were guilty of stealing food and made an example of. Who knows, but starvation tends to dull people's good humor and tolerance.