Cameos from English History: Forty years of Stewart rule (1603-1643). 1887Macmillan, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... soldiers under the command of Sir Thomas Knevett , a Westminster magistrate , and was instantly bound hand and foot . He was booted and spurred as if for a journey , and in his pockets were a watch , some touchwood and tinder , and ...
... soldiers under the command of Sir Thomas Knevett , a Westminster magistrate , and was instantly bound hand and foot . He was booted and spurred as if for a journey , and in his pockets were a watch , some touchwood and tinder , and ...
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... soldiers in one morning , without perceiving any diminution in the train , or difficulty in performing the service of the house . It was managed with great grandeur and austerity . The duke spent some time every morning in prayer and ...
... soldiers in one morning , without perceiving any diminution in the train , or difficulty in performing the service of the house . It was managed with great grandeur and austerity . The duke spent some time every morning in prayer and ...
Page 105
... soldiers were stationed in the ante - room , an insult that annoyed the Advocate , though he continued as grave and self- possessed as ever . He did not fear death , he said , but as a lawyer he could not understand for what he was to ...
... soldiers were stationed in the ante - room , an insult that annoyed the Advocate , though he continued as grave and self- possessed as ever . He did not fear death , he said , but as a lawyer he could not understand for what he was to ...
Page 106
... soldiers playing at dice for the fate of the soul of the Advocate . Did any thought cross the mind of the prisoner of the strange likeness to another game of chance played by the guards of the Innocent ? Out came the old man , leaning ...
... soldiers playing at dice for the fate of the soul of the Advocate . Did any thought cross the mind of the prisoner of the strange likeness to another game of chance played by the guards of the Innocent ? Out came the old man , leaning ...
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... soldiers recur to the notion that the prisoner was in the chest , but Elsje was always ready with a jest . Even on the wharf a soldier's wife told a story of a criminal who had been carried out in a box . if a criminal why not a lawyer ...
... soldiers recur to the notion that the prisoner was in the chest , but Elsje was always ready with a jest . Even on the wharf a soldier's wife told a story of a criminal who had been carried out in a box . if a criminal why not a lawyer ...
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