The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, Villany displayed in all its branches, Volum 4

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Pàgina 137 - I was reduced to crutches ; and was so far from being well about the time I am charged with this fact, that I never to this day perfectly recovered.
Pàgina 139 - ... 1. The bones, as was supposed, of the Saxon St. Dubricius, were discovered buried in his cell at Guy's Cliff, near Warwick, as appears from the authority of Sir William Dugdale. " 2. The bones thought to be those of the anchoress...
Pàgina 142 - Lordship, suffer not the violence, the depredations and the iniquities of those times to be imputed to this. " Moreover, what gentleman here is ignorant that Knaresborough had a castle, which, though now a ruin, was once considerable both for its strength and garrison.
Pàgina 139 - I do not inform, but give me leave to remind your lordship, that here sat solitary Sanctity...
Pàgina 143 - Now, my lord, having endeavoured to show that the whole of this process is altogether repugnant to. every part of my life ; that it is inconsistent with my condition of health about that time ; that no rational inference can be drawn that a...
Pàgina 151 - No farther feek his merits to difclofe, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repofe) The bofom of his Father and his God.
Pàgina 142 - ... unknown, whose bones futurity shall discover. " I hope, with all imaginable submission, that what has been said will not be thought impertinent to this indictment; and that it will be far from the wisdom, the learning, and the integrity...
Pàgina 140 - What would have been said, what believed, if this had been an accident to the bones in question...
Pàgina 140 - January, 1747, were found, by Mr. Stovin, accompanied by a reverend gentleman, the bones in part of some recluse, in the cell at Lindholm, near Hatfield. They were believed to be those of William of Lindholm, a hermit, who had long made this cave his habitation. " 4. In February, 1744, part of...
Pàgina 138 - The place of their depositum, too, claims much more attention than is commonly bestowed upon it ; for of all places in the world, none could have mentioned any one wherein there was greater certainty of finding human bones than a hermitage, except he should point out a churchyard ; hermitages, in time past, being not only places of religious retirement, but of burial too...

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