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" 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. "
Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Sir John Eliot; Thomas Wentworth ... - Page 412
1836
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 59. köide

1900 - 1004 lehte
...the Tower gate to the block; "I thank God I am not afraid of death, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to my bed." A Puritan lady wrote at the time that he died like Seneca, but not like one that had tasted...
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Oliver Cromwell

John Morley - 1900 - 620 lehte
...the Tower gate to the block; "I thank God I am not afraid of death, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to my bed." "His mishaps," said his confederate, Laud, "were that he groaned under the public envy of...
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Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of the Stuarts, including ...

John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 374 lehte
...his doublet. " I thank God," he said, " I am no more afraid of death, but as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." Having put on a white cap, he thrust his hair underneath it with his own hands. He then inquired for...
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Follow the Gleam: A Tale of the Time of Oliver Cromwell

Joseph Hocking - 1903 - 398 lehte
...the face, and the people too. I thank God I am no more afraid of death, but as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.' " " Ho was a great man, a strong man," I said. " Thou speakest like one who knew him," said the gaoler....
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Outline of English History B.C. 55-A.D. 1902

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1903 - 538 lehte
...God,' he said, as he stood on the scaffold, ' I am not afraid of death, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed.' 2. Changes in the Law.—All this while, and for some weeks afterwards, Parliament was busy making...
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A School History of England

Harmon Bay Niver - 1904 - 438 lehte
...he said, " I thank God that I am not afraid NlVER — 14. of death, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." Archbishop Laud was also impeached and put in prison, but was not tried and executed until four years...
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The Historians' History of the World: England, 1485-1642

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 744 lehte
...I shall rest from all my labours." He then began to undress, saying, "I do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." He knelt and prayed, Archbishop Usher and another clergyman kneeling with him. He laid down his head...
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A History of Modern Liberty, 3. köide

James Mackinnon - 1908 - 540 lehte
...death, nor daunted with any discouragements arising from any fears, but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." Then stretching forth his hands in the midst of his silent prayer as a sign to the executioner, the axe...
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Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in ...

Edward Latham - 1906 - 338 lehte
...or fear" ; and a further : " I thank God I am no more afraid of death, but as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." His only exclamation on hearing his sentence was " God's holy name be p-aised!" (Hume, Hist of Eugl.)...
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Early Maltby, with Some Roades History and that of the Maulsby Family in ...

Ella Kent Barnard - 1909 - 442 lehte
...gathered to witness his execution: "I thank God I am no more afraid of death, but as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time as ever I did when I went to bed." For history of Lord Strafford see Green's Short History of England and Browning's "Strafford, An Historical...
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