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The principle that a man's life may not twice be put in jeopardy for the same offence had been pretty well established before 1612. Wiggs, 33 Eliz. , ibid., f. 47. This principle had been in process of development for several centuries. I, cap. xxiv, 5, f. 44 b. It must be noted, however, that the statute of 3 Hen. VII, cap.
Paul's School and Camb., and while at the latter wrote earlier poems including The Nativity and Sonnets, lived for 6 years at Horton and wrote L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Comus, and Lycidas, travelled in France and Italy 1638, settled in London, entered on his political and controversial labours, and wrote inter alia on Reform of Discipline 1641, Divorce 1643-45, Education 1644, Areopagitica 1644, and the two Defences 1650 and 1654, appointed Latin Sec. 1649, this period closed by Restoration 1660, Paradise Lost written 1658-64, pub. 1667, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes 1671, d. 1674, m. first 1643 Mary Powell, second 1652 Katharine Woodcock, third 1663 Eliz.
S , "You look different to your usual; what's the matter with you?" Mr. S said, "Don't you see I am in my deshabille?" The clerk remarked, 'You must have seen his second self, for he has not been up to-day. I came away feeling very strange. "J. P. Brooks. "Sydney Villa, Ratcliffe Road, Bridgeford." Mrs. Eliz. G. L , of H House, sends me the following report of her experience of the double.
* Sir Simon D'Ewes's Journal, p. 75. 5 Eliz. c. 1. * Strype, vol. i. p 260. 5 Eliz. c. v 5 Eliz. c. 16. Witchcraft and heresy are two crimes which commonly increase by punishment, and never are so effectually suppressed as by being totally neglected. After the parliament had granted the queen a supply of one subsidy and two fifteenths, the session was finished by a prorogation.
If such an excommunicate brought an action at law, the defendant could plead in bar the excommunication. The testimony of such a man was not admissible in court. Finally, he could not be buried in the parish churchyard nor could services be performed over his body. Burn, loc. cit., supra. See the case of Kenton v. Wallinger, 41 Eliz., Croke's Eliz. Rep., Leache's ed., Pt. ii, 838.
There was a minute's hush, too strong for expression, in which each experienced more intensely the shock of the mysterious alarm. It was Madge who broke the silence. Her voice rang clear, although vibrating. 'Jacques Morin, he came into our room to rob! She pointed at Courthope. The thin voice of Eliz came in piercing parenthesis: 'I saw him in the closet, and when I screamed he ran.
'Catherine Moreland's mother is talking common sense to General Tilney and Sir Walter Eliot, and there'll be no end of a row in a minute if you don't divert their attention. Eliz had more than once to call the other two to account for talking privately adown the long table. 'What a magnificent ham! he exclaimed. 'Do you keep pigs? Madge had a frank way of giving family details.
An act was passed this session, enforcing the former statute, which imposed twenty pounds a month on everyone absent from public worship: but the penalty was restricted to two thirds of the income of the recusant. 29 Eliz. c. 6.
The city of London, in 1580, had obtained from the Queen the suppression of plays on Sundays; and not long after, 'considering that play- houses and dicing-houses were traps for young gentlemen and others, obtained leave from the Queen and Privy Council to thrust the players out of the city, and to pull down the play-houses, five in number; and, paradoxical as it may seem, there is little doubt that, by the letter of the law, 'stage plays and enterludes' were, even to the end of Charles the First's reign, 'unlawful pastime, being forbidden by 14 Eliz., 39 Eliz., 1 Jacobi, 3 Jacobi, and 1 Caroli, and the players subject to severe punishment as 'rogues and vagabonds. The Act of 1 Jacobi seems even to have gone so far as to repeal the clauses which, in Elizabeth's reign, had allowed companies of players the protection of a 'baron or honourable person of greater degree, who might 'authorise them to play under his hand and seal of arms. So that the Puritans were only demanding of the sovereigns that they should enforce the very laws which they themselves had made, and which they and their nobles were setting at defiance.
'This is my sister, said the mistress of the house. 'I am very glad to see you, Mr. Courthope. The tones of Eliz were sharp and thin. She was evidently acting a part, as with the air of a very grand lady she held out her hand. He was somewhat dazzled. He felt it not inappropriate to ask if he had entered fairyland.
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