DRBR 10: In which Shabbetai Tzvi is reported to have died

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This one’s an edition of the London Gazette, from April 1666. I love the line “Published by Authority”. I thought that was hubris, but then I learned that the London Gazette is “one of the official journals of record of the British government,” so it really is Published by Authority.

Genoa, March 6 It is written from Constantinople, That upon the arrival of the Jewish Prophet Sabadai, the Grand Signior consulted with his Mufti, and one of his Judges, what was to be done with him, who resolved that he was to be dealt with as a Traytor to the Ottoman Empire, and his skin to be taken off from him alive: after which sentence, the people fell very severely upon all the Jews they met with, killing a great number of them, the rest saving themselves by flight. The false Prophet was immediately delivered to the Guard, who set him upon an ugly horse, and carried him to the seven Towers. The people all the way insulting over him, and carrying before him halters, and the heads and arms of his slain followers. From the seven Towers, he was in a little while delivered to the Executioner, who first pulled out his Tongue, and then beheaded him, stripping off his skin, and hanging up the carcass by the heeles upon a Gibbet.

I adore the detail of the ugly horse. You couldn’t execute a criminal on a pretty horse, could you?

Anyway, this is a fine example of a newspaper Getting It Wrong; in Constantinople Shabetai was arrested and imprisoned, but not put to death. I expect Jews got killed; they usually do, especially when they turn up to places going “Our leader is going to take over!” and the local top dog has other ideas and imprisons the leader, who is safe behind bars but his followers aren’t.

Wikipedia is rather vague about how Shabetai actually did meet his end:

The death of Sabbatai Zevi is clouded in some mystery because of conflicting accounts about exactly how, when and where he died. There are those who maintain he died of natural causes and others that claim he was executed by hanging. Historians seem to agree that in 1673 Zevi was exiled by the Turkish sultan to the Albanian port of Ulcinj (now in Montenegro), dying there three years later.

Mirrored from hasoferet.com.

Lawyer recs again, people...

We're moving to Quebec, my boy and I. Quebec counts us as married (de facto), so in a sense, moving to Quebec is like getting married.

Being tidy types, we decide to make a pre-nup.

So we ask around for a pre-nup lawyer. We get a recommendation from a friend. We email the lawyer a few times, no reply, we phone her. Her secretary doesn't use the Hold button so we hear her in the background going "Yeah, I have no idea who that guy is, he emailed me totally out of the blue..." and other things that didn't really fill us with confidence.

So. Anyone else know a pre-nup lawyer? Seems like everyone in my life is married; some of you lot must know someone who's done a pre-nup.