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Colonel Jeffreys' personal influence and fighting qualities, strongly reflected even in his absence in those officers who had received their early training under him, had been largely responsible for the reputation and the success of the Battalion during its first two years of fighting and his departure was greatly regretted by all ranks.
The packet that Master Jeffreys handed to Dorothy was too large and too heavy for a mere missive; and the maid, recalling some jocular promises of Raleigh's, at once suspected that some London gew-gaw lay snug within, and tore off the wrappings with eager fingers. Her hopes were not disappointed, and a dainty pair of silver shoebuckles shone in the sunlight.
He died the year after the Revolution, in the Tower, maintaining to the last that he was innocent in the sight of God and man because "all the blood he had shed fell short of the King's command." And Jeffreys was perfectly logical and consistent in his attitude. A judiciary is either an end in itself or a means to an end.
Hernando pressed his views upon him, and the skipper of the coaster seconded him. Morgan and Jeffreys were brought aboard.
And instead of riding toward the men who had roused them by their cries, each bound of the horses was carrying them farther away. When Larry and his companions had met the bear, the four raiders with the cattle Jeffreys had seen were only about two miles in advance of them.
One man was there for cheeking a sergeant. He had called the sergeant something which cannot be repeated here. "'Why the b h did you speak to an N.C.O. like that? exclaimed the Colonel in a Judge Jeffreys tone. 'Will you take my sentence? Or will you have a court martial? he demanded. "The man replied that he would take the Colonel's sentence.
Vjera had never heard of Judge Jeffreys nor of the Bloody Assizes, but the methods of procedure adopted by that eminent destroyer of his kind would have seemed mild and humane compared with what she supposed that all men, innocent or guilty, had to expect after they had once fallen into the hands of the policeman.
He saw the errors of the king, and deplored them; he denounced Jeffreys as a butcher who had been let loose by the priests; and pitied the king, who was, he thought, swayed by evil counsels.
Jeffreys saw her overpowered with trouble and shame penniless in the great city, and disgraced by expulsion from her patron's roof. Seeing that her abject plight was the consequence of amiable readiness to serve him, Jeffreys pitied and consoled her.
Jeffreys expostulated with them vehemently, and, after another consultation, they gave a reluctant verdict of Guilty. On the following morning sentence was pronounced. Jeffreys gave directions that Alice Lisle should be burned alive that very afternoon. This excess of barbarity moved the pity and indignation even of the class which was most devoted to the crown.
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