Illustration of a passage in Hollinshed's 'Chronicles of Ireland' (1577)
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<p>"In the yeere 1307, the first of April, Murcod Ballagh was beheaded near to Merton by Sir David Caunton, Knight."
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Raphael_Holinshed" class="extiw" title="w:en:Raphael Holinshed"><span title="English chronicler">Raphael Holinshed</span></a>
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<i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_the_Guillotine.djvu" title="File:History of the Guillotine.djvu">History of the Guillotine</a></i> by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creator:John_Wilson_Croker" title="Creator:John Wilson Croker">John Wilson Croker</a>