Memories of Westminster Hall: A Collection of Interesting Incidents, Anecdotes and Historical Sketches, Relating to Westminster Hall, Its Famous Judges and Lawyers and Its Great Trials, Volym 1J. Cockcroft, 1874 |
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... hanged ; while the remainder , many of them women and boys , were reprieved at the king's mercy ; the queen , and Henry's sisters , the queens dowager of France and Scotland , who were then in England , remaining on their knees before ...
... hanged ; while the remainder , many of them women and boys , were reprieved at the king's mercy ; the queen , and Henry's sisters , the queens dowager of France and Scotland , who were then in England , remaining on their knees before ...
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... hanged , drawn , and quartered ; a sentence which the king afterwards commuted for decapitation , and which was carried into effect on Tower Hill on the sixth of the month . An affecting scene took place as this great man was being led ...
... hanged , drawn , and quartered ; a sentence which the king afterwards commuted for decapitation , and which was carried into effect on Tower Hill on the sixth of the month . An affecting scene took place as this great man was being led ...
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... hanged , he was placed on a horse's back , with his arms pinioned behind him and his legs tied under the horse's belly , and thus conveyed by slow stages to Salisbury , in the market - place of which town the sentence was carried into ...
... hanged , he was placed on a horse's back , with his arms pinioned behind him and his legs tied under the horse's belly , and thus conveyed by slow stages to Salisbury , in the market - place of which town the sentence was carried into ...
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... hanged ; and being half dead , to be cut down , thy bowels taken out , and after thy head is cut off , to be quartered ; thy head and body to be dis- posed of according to the queen's pleasure ; and God have mercy upon thy soul . " The ...
... hanged ; and being half dead , to be cut down , thy bowels taken out , and after thy head is cut off , to be quartered ; thy head and body to be dis- posed of according to the queen's pleasure ; and God have mercy upon thy soul . " The ...
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... hanged like common criminals . They received at different times several re- prieves ; till , at last , in 1624 , about four months pre- vious to the death of James , they received a full pardon for their crime . In the reign of Charles ...
... hanged like common criminals . They received at different times several re- prieves ; till , at last , in 1624 , about four months pre- vious to the death of James , they received a full pardon for their crime . In the reign of Charles ...
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Sida 79 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Sida 32 - Now mark me how I will undo myself: I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hands I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duteous oaths; All pomp and majesty I do forswear; My manors, rents, revenues, I forgo; My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny.
Sida 81 - ... bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was indeed not unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man.
Sida 51 - My lords, I have now troubled your lordships a great deal longer than I should have done. Were it not for the interest of these pledges, which a saint in heaven left me, I should be loth...
Sida 77 - There was a great deal of ceremony, a great deal of splendour, and a great deal of nonsense ; they adjourned upon the most foolish pretences imaginable, and did nothing with such an air of business as was truly ridiculous. I forgot to tell you the Duchess was taken ill, but performed it badly.
Sida 135 - House, as Keeper of the Great Seal, as Guardian of his Majesty's Conscience, as Lord High Chancellor of England ; nay, even in that character alone in which the noble Duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Sida 69 - I really feel for the prisoners!" old Issachar replied, "Feel for them! pray, if they had succeeded, what would have become of all us?" When my Lady Townshend heard her husband vote, she said, "I always knew my Lord was guilty, but I never thought he would own it upon his honour.
Sida 80 - ... as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the Queen the fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick.
Sida 219 - That he shall never sit in Parliament, nor come within the verge of the Court.
Sida 81 - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was, indeed, not unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes.