 | 1892 - 482 pages
...barbarous details of the sentence. Even this was granted with a brutal jibe : " My Lord Russell shall find that I am possessed of that prerogative which in the case of Lord Stafford he though fit to deny me" — thus recalling the one blot on the gentle-hearted Russell's noble life.... | |
 | William Cobbett - Reformation - 1899 - 444 pages
...family, remitted by the king, who, in yielding to their prayer, cuttingly said, " My Lord Russell shall find that I am possessed of that prerogative which, in the case of Lord Strafford, he thought fit to deny me." 384. As to Sidney, he had been one of the leading men in the... | |
 | George Borrow, Edward Hale Bierstadt - Crime - 1928 - 542 pages
...that of beheading; and upon this occasion he is said to have added, with a cool and cruel sarcasm, "Lord Russell shall now find that I am possessed of...case of Lord Stafford, he thought proper to deny me." Many attempts were made to save Lord Russell's life. It is said that 50,000l (some say 100,000l.) were... | |
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shall find that I am possessed of that prerogative which, in the case of Lord Stafford, he thought proper to deny me. 
