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It then proceeded, in the form of an address to the king, to adopt and endorse the divorce and the execution. In consequence of these treasons, and to lend, if possible, further weight to the sentence against her, the late queen was declared attainted by authority of parliament, as she already was by the common law.
But yet forgive me! when even now I saw The duke himself, my scruples recommenced. For truly, not like an attainted man, Into this town did Friedland make his entrance; His wonted majesty beamed from his brow, And calm, as in the days when all was right, Did he receive from me the accounts of office. 'Tis said, that fallen pride learns condescension.
I may not be able, nor is it my business, to prevent his being recognized in his former character of an attainted person, excepted from the general pardon. 'Master Fairford, said the provost, 'would ye ruin the poor innocent gentleman on an idle suspicion? 'Say no more of it, Mr. Crosbie; my line of conduct is determined unless that suspicion is removed.
I knew he had led his men in the Rebellion; I knew his father's head my old lord's, that grey fox of the mountains to have fallen on the block for that offence, the lands of the family to have been seized, and their nobility attainted.
Christophe shrugged his shoulders, and said with an oath that they were only humbugs, infernal writers; and he demanded fresh proof. Leonard perceived to his horror that Christophe was incurably attainted, and took no more interest in him. He remembered that he had been told not to waste his time in arguing with skeptics, at least when they stubbornly refuse to believe.
Upon conviction of a capital offence the property of the condemned was attainted, being confiscated by the state; and the constables took possession at once, in order that it might not be spirited away. And no one outside of the circle of the accusers knew whose turn might come next.
On the 11th of February, 1784, the assembly passed a resolution directing that the names of those persons that had been attainted should be communicated to the governors of the several states; requesting to be supplied, in like manner, with "a list of the persons proscribed or banished by their respective states, in order that thereby the principles of federal union may be adhered to and preserved."
Gertrude, Lady Courtenay, was herself attainted at the time of her husband's execution, but was afterwards pardoned and died in 1557. The tomb was opened in the last century from idle curiosity, and some one attempted to raise the body to a sitting posture, with the result that the skeleton fell to pieces. The tomb was also damaged by this foolish opening.
People would tolerate him as my guest for a time, but there must be an end of their patience with the tacit enmity of his sentiments and the explicit vulgarity of his ideals, and when the end came I must be attainted with him. I did not like the notion of this, and I meant to escape it if I could.
Some say that, in the bitterness of that wrong and outrage, he slew a gentleman of the Court, whom he supposed to have borne a hand in the plundering of his fortunes. Others say that he bearded King Charles the First himself, in a manner beyond forgiveness. One thing, at any rate, is sure Sir Ensor was attainted, and made a felon outlaw, through some violent deed ensuing upon his dispossession.
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