_Boiling to Death_ (Vol. ii., p. 519.).--
"Impoysonments, so ordinary in Italy, are so abominable among English,
as 21 Hen. 8. it was made high treason, though since repealed; after
which the punishment for it was to be put alive in a caldron of water,
and there boiled to death: at present it is felony without benefit of
clergy."--Chamberlayne's _State of England_,--an old copy, without a
title-page.
Judging from the list of bishops and maids of honour, I believe the date to
be 1669.