Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons from the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution: Collected from the Most Authentic Accounts Extant, Том 1

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R.S. Kirby, 1813
 

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Сторінка 42 - Lambeth* (says Lilly, almost as great a knave as himself; " with a very good report of the neighbourhood, especially of the poor, unto whom he was charitable. He was a person that in horary questions, especially thefts. was very judicious and fortunate, so also in sicknesses, which indeed was his masterpiece. In resolving questions about marriage he had good success; in other questions very moderate.
Сторінка 27 - This obstinacy lasted two or three days : But being confined to the Tower, left to reflect on his guilt and danger, and the rack being just shown to him; his courage, fatigued with so long an effort, and unsupported by hope or society, at last failed him ; and he made a full discovery of all the conspirators.
Сторінка 18 - Piercy was charmed with this project of Catesby; and they agreed to communicate the matter to a few more, and among the rest to Thomas Winter, whom they sent over to Flanders in quest of Fawkes, an officer in the Spanish service, with whose zeal and courage they were all thoroughly acquainted. "When they enlisted any new...
Сторінка 14 - Piercy, having broken into a sally of passion, and mentioned assassinating the king, Catesby took the opportunity of revealing to him a nobler and more extensive plan of treason, which not only included a sure execution of vengeance, but afforded some hopes of restoring the Catholic religion in England. In vain...
Сторінка 20 - Grant, being let into the conspiracy, engaged to assemble their friends on pretence of a hunting match, and seizing that princess, immediately to proclaim her queen. So transported were they with rage against their adversaries, and so charmed with the prospect of revenge, that they forgot all care of their own safety; and trusting to the general confusion, which...
Сторінка 22 - I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts...
Сторінка 20 - Percy should seize or assassinate him. The princess Elizabeth, a child likewise, was kept at lord Harrington's house in Warwickshire ; and Sir Everard Digby was to seize her, and immediately proclaim her queen.
Сторінка 49 - At the conclusion of the 8vo edition of his travels, he informs us, that " in his three voyages his painful feet have traced over, besides passages of seas and rivers, thirty-six thousand and odd miles, which draweth near to twice the circumference of the whole earth.
Сторінка 44 - Margery, (for so her name was,) thy husband will not be at home these eighteen days ; his kindred have vexed him, and he is come away from them in much anger : he is now in Carlisle, and hath but three-pence in his purse.
Сторінка 17 - Houses, consign over to destruction these determined foes to all piety and religion. Meanwhile, we ourselves standing aloof, safe and unsuspected, shall triumph in being the instruments of divine wrath, and shall behold with pleasure those sacrilegious walls, in which were passed the edicts for proscribing our church and butchering her children...

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