On the Fact that (According to the Don Jordan and Michael Walsh Book, "White Cargo") Amongst Sir John Popham's Favorite Methods of Putting People to Death During His Tenure as Queen Elizabeth's and King James's Attorney General and Ultimately Lord Chief Justice Were Hanging (Obviously), Drawing and Quartering, Crushing, Strangling, Beheading, and that Old Medieval Gem, Burning at the Stake

And just like with his contemporary, Mr. Gilbert, very few were ever given a break......in that everyone from common thieves to Jesuits to Jesuit sympathizers to revolutionaries like Guy Fawkes to upper-crust nobles like Sir Walter Raleigh to nobility like Mary Stuart met their maker courtesy of this guy.....................................................................................................Of course this isn't to imply that Sir John wasn't averse to taking a bribe or two in exchange for sparing someone. IN FACT, there was this one incident in which he let some psychopath off who had thrown a new-born infant into a raging fire, with the upshot being Popham, sleeping like a baby himself THAT VERY EVENING!! Yikes, huh?