A General History of the Lives, Trials, and Executions of All the Royal and Noble Personages, that Have Suffered in Great-Britain and Ireland for High Treason, Or Other Crimes: From the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Throne of England, Down to the Present Time : with a Circumstantial Narrative of Their Behaviour During Confinement, and at the Place of Execution : to which is Added, a Particular Account of the Rebellions in England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the Two Last Centuries : Compiled ... from the Best Histories, and Most Authentic Memoirs, Volume 3J. Burd, 1760 - Great Britain |
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Page 259 - put off my doublet at this time, as ever I did when I went to bed. Then he put off his doublet, wound up his hair with his hands, and put on a white cap. Then
Page 441 - of the Tower, from whence you came ; from thence you muft be drawn to the place of execution -, when you come there, you muft be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead •, for you muft be cut down alive
Page 263 - me, and humbly defire to be forgiven of God firft, and then of every man, whether I have offended him or not, if he do but conceive that I have. Lord do thou forgive me, and I beg forgivenefs of him : and fo I heartily defire you to
Page 457 - he hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead -, for you muft be cut down, alive; then your bowels muft be taken out, and burnt before your faces -, then your heads muft be fevered from your bodies, and your bodies
Page 263 - December the fixteenth, thefe canons were condemned by the houfe of commons, as containing in them things contrary to the king's prerogative, to the fundamental laws and ftatutes of this realm, to the rights of parliament, to the property and liberty of the fubject, and
Page 263 - and my feet are now upon the very brink of it ; an argument, I hope, that God is bringing me into the Land of Promife; for that was the way through which he led his people: but before they came to it, he
Page 263 - of my faith, he beft knows. I am now come to the end of my race, and here I find the crofs, a death of fhame; but the fhame muft be defpifed, or no coming to the right hand of God.
Page 66 - therein contained; yet would many be glad " to touch it, to embrace it, to kifs it, to hold it " to their breafts and heads, and ftroke over all *
Page 393 - be drawn to the place of execution; when you come there, you muft be hanged by the neck, but not till you are dead ; for you muft be cut down alive;
Page 31 - and, in the year 1582, when I took my " leave of him at Antwerp, after the return of the ** earl of Leicefter into England, and monfieur's " arrival there ; when he delivered me his letters " to her majefty, he prayed me to fay to the queen " from him,