History and Antiquities of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds

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Cowper Press, 1900 - 594 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 129 - Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord : and let not the sin of his mother be done away.
Pàgina 128 - The next motive was the cause of religion, which alone, seeing, as he said, it lay at the stake, he entered into resolution to neglect in that behalf his estate, his life, his name, his memory, his posterity, and all worldly and earthly felicity whatsoever; though he did utterly extirpate and extinguish all other hopes for the restoring of the Catholic religion in England. His third motive was, that promises were broken with the Catholics. And lastly, that they generally feared harder laws from this...
Pàgina 136 - ... advancement by the same, he had the reward of a traitor. Now these four being drawn to the scaffold, made on purpose for their execution : First went up Digby, a man of a goodly personage, and a manly aspect, yet might a wary eye, in the change of his countenance, behold an inward fear of death; for his colour grew pale and his eye heavy, notwithstanding that he inforced himself to speak as stoutly as he could.
Pàgina 239 - Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father ; 4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
Pàgina 93 - To figure this great and inestimable man aright, and to paint him in his true colours, and with some warmth of imagination, but still with the greatest submission to strict justice : I would seat him on his throne, with a ray of glory about his head, his ermines without spot or blemish, his balance in his right hand, mercy on his left, splendour and brightness at his feet, and his tongue dispensing truth, goodness, virtue, and justice to mankind.
Pàgina 129 - Coke replied, with a cold-blooded cruelty which casts an eternal stain upon his memory, " that he must not look to the King to be honoured in the manner of his death, having so far abandoned all religion and humanity in his action; but that he was rather to admire the great moderation and mercy of the King in that, for so exorbitant a crime, no new torture answerable thereto was devised to be inflicted on him.
Pàgina 127 - Under this tomb the matchless DIGBY lies, DIGBY the great, the valiant, and the wise, This age's wonder for his noble parts, Skilled in six tongues and learned in all the arts, Born on the day he died, the nth of June, And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon ; It's rare that one and the same day should be His day of birth, of death, of victory.
Pàgina 365 - ... queen's friends there so lovingly, that they, nothing earthly mistrusting, brought the king up in great haste, not in good speed, with a sober company. Now was the king in his way to London gone, from Northampton, when these dukes of Gloucester and Buckingham came thither ; where remained behind the lord Rivers, the king's uncle, intending on the morrow to follow the king, and be with him at Stony Stratford, miles thence, early or he departed.
Pàgina 569 - Argent, an escutcheon Or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double treasure flory counter-flory of the first, Howard.
Pàgina 135 - Catesby his friend, whom he esteemed dearer than anything else in the world. And this mercy he desired not for any fear of the image of death, but for grief that so shameful a death should leave so perpetual a blemish and blot unto all ages, upon his name and blood. But howsoever that this was his first offence, yet he humbly submitted himself to the mercy of the King; and prayed that the King would herein imitate God, who sometimes doth punish corporaliter , non mortaliter — corporally, yet not...

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