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When he said this, he was referring to a piece of Dr. Oates' lying evidence as to a part of the reward that they should get for killing the King. But I closed the door; for I could bear to hear no more. But afterwards I heard that they then adjourned for an hour or two, and that it was the Recorder Sir George Jeffreys that gave sentence. When I presented myself, half an hour later, at Mr.

But neither his age, nor piety, nor commanding virtues could screen him from the cruelties of Jeffreys; and, in fifteen years, he was five times imprisoned. His sufferings drew tears from Sir Matthew Hale, with whose friendship he had been honored. "But he who had enjoyed the confidence of the best of judges, was cruelly insulted by the worst."

'I have followed the guidance of my conscience, my Lord, said the venerable cloth-worker of Wellington, to whom he spoke. 'Ha, your conscience! howled Jeffreys. 'A ranter with a conscience! Where has your conscience been these two months back, you villain and rogue? Your conscience will stand you in little stead, sirrah, when you are dancing on nothing with a rope round your neck.

Edward Randolph, who has left a judge Jeffreys' reputation in America to this day, was a Jehu for the government, and his feelings towards the regicides are well touched off by Southey, in the words put into his mouth in "Oliver Newman:" "Fifteen years, They have hid among them the two regicides, Shifting from den to cover, as we found Where the scent lay.

Sir James Mackintosh, Review of the Causes of the Revolution of 1688 , an old work but still prized for the large collection of documents in the appendix; Adventures of James II , an anonymous and sympathetic account of the career of the deposed king; H. B. Irving, Life of Lord Jeffreys , an apology for a much-assailed agent of James II; Alice Shield and Andrew Lang, The King over the Water , and, by the same authors, Henry Stuart, Cardinal of York, and his Times , popular treatments of subsequent Stuart pretenders to the British throne.

However, the company ought to make good." "I hope so. Jeffreys is doubtful. I bought because I know the Bench country and Martin was interested in the scheme. It seems they are having trouble about their water rights and an order has been granted to stop the ditches. Jeffreys says nobody wants the stock just now and imagines the lawsuit may go against them."

Do you know I had half a mind to come down in the dress that I wore as Isis in Kendah Land. I have got it upstairs and you shall see me in it before you go, for old time's sake. Only it occurred to me that they might think me mad, so I didn't. Dr. Jeffreys, will you say grace, please?" Well, it was a most agreeable dinner so far as I was concerned, for I sat between my hostess and Mrs.

Even Jeffreys was startled, and ventured to represent that such a proceeding was without example, that the book was written in a foreign tongue, that it had been printed at a foreign press, that it related entirely to transactions which had taken place in a foreign country, and that no English government had ever animadverted on such works. James would not suffer the question to be discussed.

On either side of the street, as we passed, we could see the limbs of former companions dangling in the wind, and their heads grinning at us from the tops of poles and pikes. No savage country in the heart of heathen Africa could have presented a more dreadful sight than did the old English town of Taunton when Jeffreys and Kirke had the ordering of it.

His father, who wrote, told him of the hapless Maids of Taunton, who had presented the banners to the Duke of Monmouth, being sold to the Queen and the Maids of Honour, who were making what money they could out of their parents and friends; but one poor little girl had died from fright at being so roughly addressed by Jeffreys.