Repinski-Dietz Family Tree
Dietz Family Line
Pope-Gove Family Branch
Edward Gove
9th Great Grandfather
I cried when I read the following two paragraphs:
The judge then respited all the defendents except Edward Gove until the king should declare their punishment; but immediately, shedding tears while doing so, passed sentence upon Edward Gove, as follows:
You, Edward Gove, shall be drawn on a hedge to the place of execution, and there you shall be hanged by ye neck, and when yet living be cut down and cast on the ground, and your bowels shall be taken out of your belly, and your privy members cut off and burnt while you are yet alive, your head shall be cut off and your body divided into four parts, and your head and quarters shall be placed where our sovereign lord, the King pleaseth to appoint. And the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Sometimes in the course of researching family history a story arises that should be put down in our family collection of stories, and this is one.
Meet Edward Gove, the 9th Great Grandfather of myself and my siblings through our mother, Marlene Dietz Repinski.
