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Indeed, there's no doubt but that she tampered enough with Throckmorton's plot to have been convicted of misprision of treason, and so she would have been, but that her most sacred Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, would have no charge made against her. "Treason from one sovereign to another, that is new law!" said Babington.
To the reader who may still be surprised at this hesitation, knowing me to be a man of a clear, unstained conscience, I will answer by a quotation from my "Diary of a Prisoner," relating to that period: "How difficult is the position of the man who is convicted, though innocent, as I am.
Then saying something to the bogtrotters, they instantly cleared the room of the young Irelanders, who retired sadly disconcerted; nevertheless, being very silly young fellows, they hoisted the standard of rebellion; few, however, joining them, partly because they had no money, and partly because the priests abused them with might and main, their rebellion ended in a lamentable manner; themselves being seized and tried, and though convicted, not deemed of sufficient importance to be sent to the scaffold, where they might have had the satisfaction of saying
I was likewise attracted by the Morpheus in touchstone, which is described by Addison, who, by the bye, notwithstanding all his taste, has been convicted by Bianchi of several gross blunders in his account of this gallery.
Tim curtly informed him that he was none other than Tsing Hi, that he had been convicted of stealing gold, and while on the way to Cooktown had wilfully and with malice aforethought escaped from legal custody. He would be taken to Cooktown at once.
This trial, which lasted from August 7 to September 7, 1899, indicated that he had been convicted on the most flimsy and uncertain evidence, largely conjectural in character, while there was strong evidence in his favor.
Well, he's gone now, and he's given us as tough a nut to crack as ever he did while he was alive." "How did you get his finger-prints if he was never convicted?" asked Sir Hilary with interest. Foyle looked his superior full in the face and smiled. "I arrested him myself, on a charge of pocket-picking in Piccadilly," he said.
"You don't mean that the people made any attack on the parsonage?" said Mr Armstrong. "Wait till I tell you, Mr Armstrong," replied the other. "On Thursday morning last they all heard that O'Connell was a convicted felon." "Conspirator, I believe? Mr O'Joscelyn." "Conspiracy is felony, Mr Armstrong and that their priest had been let loose. It was soon evident that no work was to be done that day.
"Be merciful!" exclaimed Vanslyperken, who, strange to say, forgot his own miseries in pleading for his darling cur. "He be a convicted traitor, and he shall die, by gum!" cried Smallbones, smacking his fist into the palm of his hand. During the conversation, the time allotted to Vanslyperken had long expired, but the interest occasioned by it had inclined Sir Robert to wait till it was over.
He is a public nuisance, is he not? 'Yes, sir. 'A convicted liar? 'Yes, sir. 'He has been kicked, and cuffed, and caned? 'Yes, sir. 'And he is utterly dishonourable, debased, and profligate? 'Yes, sir. 'In the name of wonder, then, what is his merit? 'Well, sir, he is a smart man.
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