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Updated: May 21, 2025
Now the King had seen the force of this argument; and not being without gratitude for a high-seasoned dish of cruelty, had promoted the only man in England, combining the gifts of both butcher and cook. Nevertheless, I do beg you all to believe of me and I think that, after following me so long, you must believe it that I did not even know at the time of Lord Jeffreys's high promotion.
"And so shall you, gentlemen." Blood looked from judge to jury. The latter shifted uncomfortably under the confident flash of his blue eyes. Lord Jeffreys's bullying charge had whipped the spirit out of them. Had they, themselves, been prisoners accused of treason, he could not have arraigned them more ferociously. Peter Blood stood boldly forward, erect, self-possessed, and saturnine.
The King pleasantly called this 'Jeffreys's campaign. The people down in that part of the country remember it to this day as The Bloody Assize. Three times the jury refused to find her guilty, until Jeffreys bullied and frightened them into that false verdict.
This monster was the Merry Monarch's especial favourite, and he testified his admiration of him by giving him a ring from his own finger, which the people used to call Judge Jeffreys's Bloodstone.
We know from Lord Jeffreys's secretary how the Chief Justice inveighed that night in drunken frenzy against this misplaced clemency to which His Majesty had been persuaded. We know how he attempted by letter to induce the King to reconsider his decision. But James adhered to it. It was apart from the indirect profit he derived from it a clemency full worthy of him.
Now the King had seen the force of this argument; and not being without gratitude for a high-seasoned dish of cruelty, had promoted the only man in England, combining the gifts of both butcher and cook. Nevertheless, I do beg you all to believe of me and I think that, after following me so long, you must believe it that I did not even know at the time of Lord Jeffreys's high promotion.
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