Editing Jack Ketch (section)

== Later life and death ==<!-- needs better name -->
In January 1686, Ketch was committed to Bridewell Prison for "affronting" a sheriff. His assistant, [[Paskah Rose]], formerly a butcher, took his place. However, on 28 May, following his conviction for robbery, Rose himself was hanged at [[Tyburn, London|Tyburn]], and Ketch was reinstated. Ketch died in November 1686.<ref name="KetchDNB"/> Ketch's "wife is reported to have said, “That any bungler might put a man to death, but that her husband only knew how to make a Gentleman die sweetly.”"<ref>{{cite book |last=Woodfall Ebsworth |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth |date=1883 |title=The Roxburghe Ballads: Volume IV |location=Hertford |publisher=The Ballad Society |page=86}}</ref>