Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Sir John Eliot; Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford. By John ForsterLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1836 |
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... judge from a cir- cumstance that shall in due course be noticed . Meanwhile , I have another misrepresentation to clear away . After his return from the continent , Eliot mar- ried . It has been reserved for the writer before referred ...
... judge from a cir- cumstance that shall in due course be noticed . Meanwhile , I have another misrepresentation to clear away . After his return from the continent , Eliot mar- ried . It has been reserved for the writer before referred ...
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... judges and magistrates to the air , and the duke of Buck- ingham to a comet , " a prodigious comet . " All this was only a striking foil to the nervous and daring in- vective , the clear and gorgeous declamation , of Eliot . The proud ...
... judges and magistrates to the air , and the duke of Buck- ingham to a comet , " a prodigious comet . " All this was only a striking foil to the nervous and daring in- vective , the clear and gorgeous declamation , of Eliot . The proud ...
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... judges were ordered to deliver a de . cision that " no such punishment as the rack is known or allowed by our law . " We owe this to Felton . 1 Harleian MSS . 383. Letter to Mead , dated May 12 . 2 Ibid . See also Rushworth , vol . i ...
... judges were ordered to deliver a de . cision that " no such punishment as the rack is known or allowed by our law . " We owe this to Felton . 1 Harleian MSS . 383. Letter to Mead , dated May 12 . 2 Ibid . See also Rushworth , vol . i ...
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... judges remanded five recusants , who had brought their habeas cor- pus.1. an employment of service . I was willing . After ten weeks waiting , they told me I was to go with a lord into the palatinate , and that I should have employment ...
... judges remanded five recusants , who had brought their habeas cor- pus.1. an employment of service . I was willing . After ten weeks waiting , they told me I was to go with a lord into the palatinate , and that I should have employment ...
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... judges of the time . There is an abridgment of the proceedings in Rushworth , pp . 458-462 . Sir Randolph Crew , immediately before this case was argued , having , as Rushworth expresses it , " showed no zeal , " ( i . 420. ) was ...
... judges of the time . There is an abridgment of the proceedings in Rushworth , pp . 458-462 . Sir Randolph Crew , immediately before this case was argued , having , as Rushworth expresses it , " showed no zeal , " ( i . 420. ) was ...
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Page 316 - Cheapside, and had the remainder of his sentence executed upon him, by cutting off the other ear, slitting the other side of his nose, and branding the other cheek*.
Page 378 - Upwards of twelve years had elapsed since sir Thomas Wentworth stood face to face with Pym. Upon the eve of his elevation to the peerage, they had casually met at Greenwich, when, after a short conversation on public affairs, they separated with these memorable words, addressed by Pym to Wentworth. " You are going to leave us, but I will never leave you, while your head is upon your shoulders...
Page 395 - You have an army in Ireland that you may employ to reduce this kingdom to obedience.
Page 391 - I cannot satisfy myself in honour or conscience without assuring you (now in the midst of your troubles), that upon the word of a king you shall not suffer in life, honour or fortune. This is but justice, and therefore a very mean reward from a master to so faithful and able a servant as you have showed yourself to be; yet it is as much as I conceive the present times will permit, though none shall hinder me from being Your constant, faithful friend, Charles R.
Page 403 - Sir, my con' sent shall more acquit you herein to God, than all the world can do besides. To a willing man there is no injury done.
Page 408 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Page 68 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 97 - Whosoever shall bring in innovation of religion, or by favour or countenance seek to extend or introduce Popery or Arminianism, or other opinions disagreeing from the true and orthodox Church, shall be reputed a capital enemy to this Kingdom and Commonwealth.
Page 412 - I thank GOD I am no more afraid of death, nor daunted with any discouragements arising from my fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.
Page 83 - Law of the Land. IV. And in the eight and twentieth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, it was declared and enacted by Authority of Parliament, That no Man of what Estate or Condition that he be, should be put out of his Land or Tenements, nor taken nor imprisoned, nor disherited, nor put to Death, without being brought to answer by due Process of Law : V.