 | James Kendall Hosmer - Great Britain - 1888 - 642 pages
...all he had done, acknowledging no supreme power in England but a Parliament; and many things to that purpose. You have had a true account of all; and if...and give me some account of it tomorrow; till when I have no more to say to you." Charles was understood in this note to withdraw his promise of pardon,... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - History - 1889 - 650 pages
...all he had done, acknowledging no supreme power in England but a Parliament; and many things to that purpose. You have had a true account of all; and if...and give me some account of it tomorrow; till when I have no more to say to you." Charles was understood in this note to withdraw his promise of pardon,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1890 - 434 pages
...k'atu. 1661. equal to the sovereign, appeared to Charles so perilous that he wrote to Clarendon : " You have had a true account of all, and if he has...be hanged, certainly he is too dangerous a man to be let live." Both were condemned, and Vane, a sincerely religious man, though fanatical, went to the... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1890 - 358 pages
...of yane. 1661. equal to the sovereign, appeared to Charles so perilous that he wrote to Clarendon: " You have had a true account of all, and if he has...be hanged, certainly he is too dangerous a man to be let live." Both were condemned, and Vane, a sincerely religious man, though fanatical, went to the... | |
 | John Roy Musick - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1893 - 446 pages
...of this noble spirit, his enemies clamored for his life. The king wrote: " Certainly Sir Henry Vane is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way." Though he could not be honestly put out of the way, it was resolved that he should die. The day before... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1899 - 688 pages
...through Lord Clarendon, that, if convicted, he should receive a pardon, now wrote to that minister, " He is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way." Some of the horrible accompaniments of the penalty of treason were remitted. He was beheaded on Tower... | |
 | David Masson - 1898 - 360 pages
...had written to Clarendon from Hampton Court on the 7th of June, commenting on the same, and adding, " If he has given new occasion to be hanged, certainly...live, if we can honestly " put him out of the way." Honestly or not, they did put him out of the way. The sentence pronounced on him on the nth was that... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1899 - 548 pages
...done ; acknowledging no supreme power in England but a parliament, and many things to that purpose. If he has given new occasion to be hanged, certainly he is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestlv put him out of the way ' ( BURSET, Oirn Tim?, ed. Airy, i. 286 n. ; for comments on Vane's... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1899 - 672 pages
...through Lord Clarendon, that, if convicted, he should receive a pardon, now wrote to that minister, " He is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way." Some of the horrible accompaniments of the penalty of treason were remitted. He was beheaded on Tower... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - History - 1899 - 446 pages
...promise previously given that the prisoner's life should be spared wrote to Clarendon that Vane was “too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way.” Sir Henry Vane was beheaded on Tower Hill, June 14, 1662, and died as manfully as he had lived. Perhaps... | |
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purpose. You have had a true account of all; and if he has given new occasion to be hanged, certainly he is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way. Think of this, and give me some account of it to-morrow, till when... 
