| Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1800 - 464 pages
...wore embroidered upon his coat in letters of filver, might have been applied to feveral others, — *' I am Captain Warner, commander of a troop " of robbers,...an enemy to God, without pity and " without mercy 54." MiferaMe When thofe audacious plunderers dared to rob common kings, cardinals, bifhops, and lords,... | |
| Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1805 - 468 pages
...wore embroidered upon his coat in letters of filver, might have been applied to feveral others, — ** I am Captain Warner, commander of a troop ** of robbers,...an enemy to God, without pity and " without mercy s\" Miferable When thofe audacious plunderers dared to rob kings, cardinals, bimops, and lords, and... | |
| Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1805 - 468 pages
...wore embroidered upon his coat in letters of filver, might have been applied to feveral others, — " I am Captain Warner* commander of a troop ** of robbers,...an enemy to God, without pity and " without mercy 5V Mifcrable . When thofe awdaefoirs plunderers dared to rob common kings, cardinals, biftrops, and... | |
| Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1814 - 468 pages
...wore embroidered upon his coat in letters of filver, might have been applied to feveral others, — " I am Captain Warner, " commander of a troop of robbers, an enemy " to God, without pity and without mercy."54 Miferable When thofe audacious plunderers dared to rob ftate of kings, cardinals, bifliops,... | |
| 1822 - 694 pages
...infamy and remorselessness. He had his character embroidered upon his coat in letters of silver : ' I am Captain Warner, commander of a troop of robbers,...an enemy to God, without pity and without mercy.' To these wild rangers, a country little reclaimed and thinly peopled afforded great facilities for... | |
| 1830 - 428 pages
...leather, and had the following extraordinary legend embroidered on it in letters of silver:— " 1am Captain Warner, commander of a troop of robbers, an enemy to God, without pity and without mercy." " My Lord of Coiirtnaye is then resolved to beard Sir Lionel, defy the Franciscan, and, in the teeth... | |
| Books - 1844 - 628 pages
...desperate outlaw embroidered his name, character, and mood in silver letters upon his coat : — " I am Captain Warner, commander of a troop of robbers ; an enemy to God, without piety and without mercy." In Hampshire they were extremely numerous, so much so that no jury could... | |
| Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - Feudalism - 1852 - 458 pages
...It was afterwards found, that several members of the king's household were in confederacy with the thieves. Even under the more vigorous administration...of the open country." — Wade. In the "Dictum, de Keni'lworth" drawn up in the 51st year of the reign of Henry III., (1268) is the following clause :... | |
| 1008 pages
...Warner, who wore, embroidered upon his coat in letters of silver, the following inscription : — " I am Captain Warner, commander of a troop of robbers, an enemy to God, without pity, and without mercy ;" to the introduction of jesters, who now became regular appendages of a princely or noble household... | |
| Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - Feudalism - 1863 - 392 pages
...shortened the feudal tether considerably; and while he dealt justly by his nobles, he did his besj; to secure immunities for their vassals, and was ;the...without mercy ! !' As neither persons of condition, nor evea kings, nor populous towns, could be protected from these audacious plunderers, we may presume... | |
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