And that if his Doggs would not eate himm hee would eate him himselfe

In interviewing informers Bradshaw [who presided over the trial of Charles I] was repeatedly confronted with the visceral fury that was felt towards him personally. A London grocer reported to the Council of State that he had heard a royalist vow that he ‘would cutt in peices the said Lord President and boyle him and after give him to his Dogges to eate; And that if his Doggs would not eate himm hee would eate him himselfe.’

A. Keay, The restless republic (2022), loc. 854