Colonist (1861) Reef with two carpenters as well as caulkers and riggers. At this stage they had already partially succeeded in getting the vessel off the reef. By November the ketch had again returned from the wreck site with cargo from both the "Colonist" as well as the "Douglas", and the scene was described as: that masts and yards as well as hull of the Colonist are as sound as the day she was built She has been thoroughly caulked from keel to covering board, and is now quite tight, her rigging has been refitted and sails bent The tides have been
Jack Ketch for a Popish Contagion." In 1679, there appears from another pamphlet purporting to be written by Ketch himself, and entitled "The Man of Destiny's Hard Fortune", that the hangman was confined for a time in the Marshalsea prison, "whereby his hopeful harvest was like to have been blasted." A short entry in the autobiography of Anthony à Wood for 31 August 1681 describes how Stephen College was hanged in the Castle Yard, Oxford, "and when he had hanged about half an hour, was cut down by Catch or Ketch, and quartered under the gallows, his entrails were burnt in a