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	Dancing with Jack Ketch
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		DANCING WITH JACK KETCH: The Life of Jackson Donfaire, Notorious Pirate
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	www.joshshalek.com /jackketch/jackketch.htm (144 words)

	John Ketch - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first recorded mention of him is in The Plotters Ballad, being Jack Ketch's incomparable Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants and Wholesome Physick for a Popish Contagion, a broadside published in December 1672.
		On the scaffold, on the 15th of July 1685, the duke of Monmouth, addressing Ketch, referred to his treatment of Lord Russell, the result being that Ketch was quite unmanned and had to deal at least five strokes with his axe, and finally use a knife, to sever Monmouth's head from his shoulders.
		In 1686 Ketch was deposed and imprisoned at Bridewell, but when his successor, Pascha Rose, a butcher, was, after four months in the office, hanged at Tyburn, Ketch was reappointed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Ketch (209 words)

	Jack Ketch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He became famous through the way he performed his duties during the tumults of the 1680s, when he was often mentioned in broadsheet accounts that circulated throughout the Kingdom of England.
		The knot more commonly known as a hangman's knot is also sometimes known as Jack Ketch's knot.
		As a figure of death in folklore "Jack Ketch" is also known as "Hanging Jack" and "Mister Graball".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Ketch (447 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Jack. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One who lends a hand in an emergency; an itinerant clergyman who has no cure, but officiates for a fee in any church where his assistance is required.
		An insolent sauce-box, “the worst Jack of the pack.” Fluellen says one who challenges another and refuses to fight is a “Jack-sauce.” (Henry V., iv.
		Jack, a generic name for man, husband, or master; and Gill or Jill, his wife or female servant.
	www.bartleby.com /81/9051.html (820 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - To hell and Jack - Monday \| July 2, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jack is a nickname for John and sometimes for James or Jacob.
		The Jacks reference in the paper was to Jack Warner, FIFA Vice-President, and leading figure in Trinidad and Tobago's attempt to reach the World Cup next year.
		Jack's problem is the thin line that his namesake in rhyme has to walk, with Jill, hill and broken crowns on the one hand and candlesticks on the other, with thumbs and plums on the one side and a continuing conflict between work and play on the other.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20010702/cleisure/cleisure4.html (956 words)

	ketch - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		ketch n : a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost
		Ca["i]que.] (Naut.) An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
		in pronunciation.] To ketch him at a vantage in his snares.
	dict.die.net /ketch (53 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Jack Ketch, the son of the town sheriff, was responsible, but he was never brought to justice and grew up to become sheriff himself.
		Josh's quiet life is disrupted forever when, while walking on one of the town's "perp walks"—irregular paths that run perpendicular to Euclid's regular grid of streets, and which local residents use as shortcuts—he encounters a strange young woman in a long dress who briefly confronts him, then flees.
		Their actions in 1918 inevitably have consequences for the present; by the end of the novel, the tangled situations faced by Josh and those around him—some related to time travel, others not—resolve themselves in unexpected ways that are, if not wholly tragic, then also not without loss.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue301/books.html (693 words)

	Debts of Blood
		Ketch was very wily, and William was the most loyal pirate ye could have: always good to his word, and deadly accurate with those knives of his.
		Jack ignored her and continued, "...because Ketch carried a torch for William, but I was completely smitten.
		Ketch told William to low, and he told him t´ go along with everythin´ until the time was ripe for them to take control.
	www.planetx.org /~changeling/potc/dob4.html (3961 words)

	Jack Ketch — Infoplease.com
		We are told that the name Jack was applied to hangmen from Richard Jaquett, to whom the manor of Tyburn once belonged.
		Jack Ketch - Jack Ketch Although this looks very much like a sobriquet, there seems no sufficient evidence to...
		Ketch - Ketch (See Jack Ketch.) Ketch A kind of two-masted vessel.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/jack-ketch.html (154 words)

	jack in the box
		"Jack' is certainly a long-standing and traditional way of referring to the common man. We still see it today on such terms as lumberjack, steeplejack, every man-jack in the navy.
		"jack off") and the word for the small part in a harpsichord that holds the plectrum.
		We plug a phone jack (male connector) in the socket (female connector) on the wall.
	www.englishforums.com /English/JackInTheBox/bnjhq/Post.htm (490 words)

	Jack
		Jack is short for Jackin, an alternate form of Jankin, a English diminutive form of
		Jack is sometimes thought of as an English form of Jacques, the French form of
		It was so common that it became slang for “man” and is found in many common phrases from “Jack-of-all-trades” to “Jack-o-lantern.” Occasionally, Jack, used as a nickname for Joseph or George, as well as others.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/j/jack.html (130 words)

	Jack Ketchum Interview - Penny Blood Magazine
		Once the moniker of a Wild West bandit and referential of Jack Ketch – “hangman” in old English slang - it conjures outlaw violence and grim justice.
		These are amazingly gifted guys with a lot more than scares on their minds -- though they do have very sharp teeth, mind you -- who write with wit and passion and compassion and who, with any justice, will one day be recognized as the major players which, to this writer's sensibility, they already are.
		Jack seems to be around for the duration, guarding the gates of my output with axe in hand.
	www.pennyblood.com /ketchuminterview.html (4567 words)

	The Baroque Cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jack Ketch died in 1686, but makes a very colorful addition to the novel's events of 1714.
		However, by the time of the novel 'Jack Ketch' was a nickname for all hangmen.
		Jack escapes from Cairo by water to the Red Sea; but the Suez Canal was not built until 1869, and ancient canals linking the Nile and the Red Sea had long been destroyed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle (1121 words)

	Definition of Jack - 2Dictionary.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
		The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
		t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks.
	www.2dictionary.com /words/Jack.html (571 words)

	Chapter J <i>to</i> Jack of J by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Chapter J to Jack of J by Brewer's Phrase and Fable
		An insolent saucebox, "the worst Jack of the pack." Fluellen says one who challenges another and refuses to fight is a "Jack-sauce." (Henry V., iv.
		Jack-ass, Jack- baker (a kind of owl), Jack or dog fox, Jack-hare, Jack-hern, Jack-rat, Jack-shark, Jack-snipe; a young pike is called a Jack, so also were the male birds used in falconry.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1175/23116/1.html (567 words)

	Debts of Blood
		Jack had lit a candle and was reading something at his desk.
		Ketch was livid and his face colored with barely restrained anger.
		She had hoped that Jack would have left a loophole in the parley, but Ketch was too clever.
	www.planetx.org /~changeling/potc/dob5.html (3155 words)

	Jack Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When a child Jack Hall had been sold to a chimney sweep for a guinea.
		According to Sharp the song was written before 1719 because there is reference to a tune "Chimney Sweep"which has the same metre as Jack Hall in a publication that year.
		Because of the fact Admiral Benbow died in 1702 Sharp supposes that Jack Hall is the earlier tune.
	www.contemplator.com /england/jackhall.html (217 words)

	Jack's Last Gift (Sage) - YPPedia
		Jack's Last Gift is an outpost island located in the Osprey Archipelago.
		There are three known routes from the island: Ambush Island, Deadlight Dunes, and Mirage Island.
		Jack's Last Gift is named for executioner Jack Ketch.
	yppedia.puzzlepirates.com /Jack's_Last_Gift_(Sage) (109 words)

	JOHN KETCH (d. 1686) - Online Information article about JOHN KETCH (d. 1686)
		The first recorded mention of him is in The Plotters Ballad, being Jack Ketch's incomparable See also:
		Monmouth, addressing Ketch, referred to his treatment of Lord Russell, the result being that Ketch was quite unmanned and had to See also:
		Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/KETCH_JOHN_d_1686_.html (446 words)

	Jack Pudding — FactMonster.com
		Jack Pudding - Jack Pudding A buffoon who performs pudding tricks, such as swallowing a certain number of yards of...
		The Jack Pudding of the French stage; very like the German “Hanswurst,”...
		Tom - Tom Between “Tom” and “Jack” there is a vast difference.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/jack-pudding.html (175 words)

	Jack O' Words
		Jack O' Words — The name Jack is the most common first name found in English words.
		Jack is a fairly common English and American first name.
		Jack Pudding — buffoon who does pudding tricks
	www.jimwegryn.com /Names/JackOWords.htm (428 words)

	Hand puppets: JACK KETCH THE HANGMAN : Page 66
		Jack wears a fl mask and fl cape.
		The noose hanging from his gallows tree must be large enough and stiff enough to be easily slipped over his head.
		Single-strand insulated wire is better than cotton cord because it will hold the loop shape.
	www.hand-puppets.us /jack-ketch-the-hangman--page-66.html (53 words)

	ketch (Grose 1811 Dictionary)
		Till Ketch observing he was chous’d, And in his profits much abus’d.
		In open hall the tribute dunn’d, To do his office, or refund.
		Ketch had not long been elevated to his office, for the name of his predecessor Dun occurs in the former part of this poem, page 29:
	www.fromoldbooks.org /Grose-VulgarTongue/k/ketch.html (222 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Jack Pudding. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Jack Pudding.
		A buffoon who performs pudding tricks, such as swallowing a certain number of yards of fl-pudding.
		Bishop observes that each country names its stage buffoon from its favourite viands: The Dutchman calls him Pickel-herringë; the Germans, Hans Wurst (John Sausage); the Frenchman, Jean Potage; the Italian, Macaro’ni; and the English, Jack Pudding.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/9061.html (93 words)

	Amazon.com: "Jack Ketch": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The crowd on the Common stop praying and sobbing for just as long as Jack Ketch stands there, elbows locked, for all the world like a carpenter heaving a ridge- beam into place.
		The clergy was there for Julia and for most other customers of Jack Ketch, and Ned Dennis, and all of the honest tradesmen to follow them.
		The crowd on the Com- mon stop praying and sobbing for just as long as Jack Ketch stands there, elbows locked, for all the world like a carpen- ter heaving a ridge-beam into place.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Jack-Ketch (548 words)

	The Newgate Calendar - JOHN PRICE, COMMONLY CALLED JACK KETCH
		He held the Office of Common Hangman, and was himself hanged in Bunhill Fields in May, 1718, for murdering a Woman
		Jack Ketch arrested while attending a malefactor to the place of execution
		THIS criminal first drew his breath in the fog-end of the suburbs of London, and, like Mercury, became a thief as soon as ever he peeped out of the shell.
	www.exclassics.com /newgate/ng148.htm (1168 words)

	Amazon.com: "Jack Shaftoe": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Banyolar Starboard Oar "HALF-COCKED" JACK SHAFTOE,L'Emmerdeur, King of the Vagabonds MOSEH DE LA CRUZ, the Kohan with the Plan GABRIEL GOTo, ajesuit Priest of Nippon OTTO...
		He and Jack Shaftoe, Bobby's uncle, have been shipping a lot of stuff between here and Singapore.
		At the same moment, he turned to face her and threw back his hood to reveal the face of Jack Shaftoe.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Jack-Shaftoe (470 words)

	The Man Who Invented Christmas - Jack Ketch
		The Man Who Invented Christmas - Jack Ketch
		Jack Ketch writes on music and the arts.
		In the 150 years since it was published, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has become his most celebrated and oft-adapted work.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1993/december/Sa10268.htm (171 words)

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