Band at the execution

[BettyO]

Quote:Were the bells tolling in the city when the conspirators were marching out to the scaffold?

They tolled at 1 PM - and I think the march began at something like 1 to 1:25 PM? I get my times mixed up. Supposedly the bodies hanged until 2 PM - is that right? I'm at work (just got in from out in the field) and don't have anything to go by right now....

So if bells were tolling, I think it would be for the time? Supposedly a legend within the Herold family went that family friends who remained at home with Mrs. Herold stopped all the clocks in the house before 1 PM so that Herold's mother would not know what time the march began - however, the church bells outside tolled the hour, which she distinctly heard, so that their efforts were thwarted.