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Besides the calendar it contains a list of county and other officials, dates of quarter sessions and assizes, fair days and markets, records of the prices obtained at the annual sales of rams or shorthorns on leading farms, and similar agricultural information. The editor has very likely been born in the district, and has thus grown up to understand the wants and the spirit of the farming class.
Her Florentin! The poor child! And she was sunk in despair. Had they not suffered enough? Was this new proof necessary? Why had their life been so unmercifully cruel? Why had not Dr. Saniel let her die? At least she would not have seen this last catastrophe, this disgrace; her son accused of assassination, in prison, at the assizes!
'To-morrow they lead me forth, he wrote. 'I have done with this world, but, in the bosom of God, I promise you I will do what I can. So did this clear and childlike spirit carry its cause from the Austrian Assizes to a higher tribunal.
Stickles replied, with a merry grin, that if ever they got it, it would be a jail deliverance, and the bliss of dancing; and he laid his hand to his throat in a manner which seemed to me most uncourteous. However, his foresight proved too correct; for both those poor fellows were executed, soon after the next assizes.
Some man, in an awed undertone, spoke of it as a bloody assizes, and the name passed from lip to lip until it reached Judge Marriott's lodging. He chuckled still more, and said to those about him that Jeffreys would act up to the name, here and wherever else in this cursed West Country there were prisoners to be punished. Bloody Assizes!
Poor rates, quarter sessions, turnpikes, corn-laws, next assizes, rail-roads and parish matters, with a touch of the horse and dog between primo and secondo genitur, for variety. If politics turn up, you can read who host is in a gineral way with half an eye. If he is an ante-corn-lawer, then he is a manufacturer that wants to grind the poor instead of grain. He is a new man and reformer.
They invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs." In later life he adopted the excellent and characteristic motto Faber meæ fortunæ; and, to some impertinent questions about his grandfather, he replied with becoming gravity "He disappeared about the time of the assizes, and we asked no questions."
It is a painful task to record, that Edward Fairfax, the harmonious and elegant translator of Tasso, prosecuted six of his neighbours at York assizes in the year 1622, for witchcraft on his children. "The common facts of imps, fits, and the apparition of the witches, were deposed against the prisoners." The grand jury found the bill, and the accused were arraigned.
If he resist, I will bring him before the assizes!" "You?" said Madame Desvarennes, going nearer to Cayrol. "Yes, I!" answered the banker, with energy. "Wretched man! And my daughter?" cried the mistress. "Think well what you are saying! You would disgrace me and mine." "Am I not dishonored myself?" asked Cayrol. "Your son-in-law is a robber, who has defiled my home and robbed my safe."
The Tories exulted in the prospect of winning two seats from the Whigs. The whole kingdom was divided between Stouts and Cowpers. At the summer assizes Hertford was crowded with anxious faces from London and from parts of England more distant than London.
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