 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 498 pages
...protectorate of Richard Cromwell. After the Restoration, Charles II. wrote Clarendon that Vane was <( too dangerous a man to let live if we can honestly put him out of the way." He was accordingly arrested on a charge of high treason, and, after the formality of trial, was executed... | |
 | William Wotherspoon Ireland - Great Britain - 1905 - 612 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 he had given new occasion to be hanged, certainly he is too dangerous a man to let live if we can honestly... | |
 | William Wotherspoon Ireland - Great Britain - 1905 - 572 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 he had given new occasion to be hanged, certainly he is too dangerous a man to let live if we can honestly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 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 he has given new occasion to be hanged, certaynly he is too dangerous a man to lett live, if we can honestly put him out of the way. Thinke... | |
 | John Roy Musick - United States - 1908 - 458 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 honestiy put out of the way, it was resolved that he should die. The day before... | |
 | MARY CAROLINE CRAWFORD - 1908 - 540 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 to-morrow, till when I have no more to say to you. c. R." The end soon came. Sir Harry was by this time in the Tower and... | |
 | History, Modern - 1908 - 1056 pages
...imprisoned for life, while Sir lonry Vane was tried and executed for high treason in June, 16i¡:2. He is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way," wrote Charles to Clarendon. For other persons the amnesty was complete and comprehensive, securing... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - History, Modern - 1908 - 1060 pages
...imprisoned for life, while Sir Henry Vane was tried and executed for high treason in June, 1662. " He is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way," wrote Charles to Clarendon. For other persons the amnesty was complete and comprehensive, securing... | |
 | Henry Melville King - 1909 - 226 pages
...wrote to Lord Chancellor Clarendon, the instigator of the whole persecution, a letter in which he said: "He is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly [he might have added or dishonestly] put him out of the way." It is stated that the roofs of the houses... | |
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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... 
