A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Volume 2Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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... Prince and Council : then under the king's the Head began to be negligent , the people authority to carry the king to the Tower ; night reform what is amiss . In the 3rd of and to make a stale of the admiral . When Henry 4 , sir Roger ...
... Prince and Council : then under the king's the Head began to be negligent , the people authority to carry the king to the Tower ; night reform what is amiss . In the 3rd of and to make a stale of the admiral . When Henry 4 , sir Roger ...
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... prince should disburse so much money If that be proved , let me be guilty of ten thou- without a sufficient pawn ? I knew her own sand Treasons . It is a strange thing you will subjects , the citizens of London , would not lend impute ...
... prince should disburse so much money If that be proved , let me be guilty of ten thou- without a sufficient pawn ? I knew her own sand Treasons . It is a strange thing you will subjects , the citizens of London , would not lend impute ...
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... prince Henry example of my lord of Essex , that noble earl would say , that no king but his father would that is gone ; who , if he had not been carried keep such a bird in a cage ; ' ) at length he fell away with others , had lived in ...
... prince Henry example of my lord of Essex , that noble earl would say , that no king but his father would that is gone ; who , if he had not been carried keep such a bird in a cage ; ' ) at length he fell away with others , had lived in ...
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... prince , the law hath taken from me , and I am now ' but the same earth and dust , out of which I ' was made . If my offence had any propor tion with your majesty's mercy , I might de- ، with your majesty's unmeasurable goodness , I ...
... prince , the law hath taken from me , and I am now ' but the same earth and dust , out of which I ' was made . If my offence had any propor tion with your majesty's mercy , I might de- ، with your majesty's unmeasurable goodness , I ...
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... prince's ser- vice , and Grey cannot beg his . God send the king a long and prosperous reign , and to your lordships all honour . " After sentence given , he only desired to have one Travers , * a divine , sent for to come to him , if ...
... prince's ser- vice , and Grey cannot beg his . God send the king a long and prosperous reign , and to your lordships all honour . " After sentence given , he only desired to have one Travers , * a divine , sent for to come to him , if ...
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Page 173 - Good Lord, deliver us. From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 19 - The king desires nothing but the knowledge of the truth, and would have no advantage taken by severity of the law. If ever we had a gracious king, now we have ; I hope as he is, such are his ministers. If there be but a trial of five marks at common law, a witness must be deposed. Good my Lords, let my accuser come face to face, and be deposed.
Page 577 - ... and the like; these are busy and curious frames, which of necessity do pre-suppose a law precedent, written or unwritten, to guide and direct them : but in monarchies, especially hereditary, that is, when several families, or lineages of people do submit themselves to one line, imperial or royal, the submission is more natural and simple, which afterwards by laws subsequent is perfected and made more formal; but that is grounded upon nature.
Page 39 - Beg my dead body, which living was denied thee, and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church, by my father and mother. I can say no more, — time and death call me away.
Page 135 - Prohibitions by law are to be granted at any time to restrain a court to intermeddle with or execute anything which by law they ought not to hold plea of, and they are much mistaken that maintain the contrary.
Page 89 - The humble Petition of the Ministers of the Church of England desiring reformation of certain ceremonies and abuses of the Church To the most Christian and Excellent Prince, our gracious and dread Sovereign James, by the grace of God, etc.
Page 167 - God. 2 For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring : and they that hate thee have lift up their head. 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people : and taken counsel against thy secret ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people : and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Page 31 - ... shall be drawn upon a hurdle through the open streets to the place of execution, there to be hanged and cut down alive, and your body shall be opened, your heart and bowels plucked out, and your privy members cut off, and thrown into the fire before your eyes; then your head to be stricken off from your body, and your body shall be divided into four quarters, to be disposed of at the King's pleasure.
Page 89 - That divers terms of priests and absolution and some other used, with the ring in marriage, and other such like in the book may be corrected. The longsomeness of service abridged. Church songs, and music moderated to better edification. That the Lord's day be not profaned : the rest upon holy-days not so strictly urged.
Page 7 - Sir! I am the more large, because I know with whom I deal: for we have to deal to-day with a man of wit, Ralegh.