Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events, Volumen2

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J. Hodges, 1874
 

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Página 215 - ... cause such dreadful execution to be done upon a good number of the inhabitants of every town, village, and hamlet, that have offended in this rebellion, as well by the hanging...
Página 176 - Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Página 14 - EUCLID SIMPLIFIED IN METHOD AND LANGUAGE. Being a Manual of Geometry. Compiled from the most important French Works, approved by the University of -Paris and the Minister of Public Instruction.
Página 206 - Highness for the speedy remedy and punishing of heresy, and the preachers thereof ; and for the taking the ornaments of the churches and abbeys suppressed, and the violating of relics by the suppressors; the irreverent demeanour of the doers thereof; the abuse of the vestments taken extraordinary ; and other their negligences in doing their duty, as well to their sovereign as to the commons.
Página 209 - He spoke of his intentions ; the herald inquired -what they were. He said ' he would go to London, he and his company, of pilgrimage to the King's Highness, and there to have all the vile blood of his council put from him, and all...
Página 264 - ... stuff as I have sent to Mary Bateman from Scarboro', and she will give your wife it, but you must not begin to eat of this pudding while I let you know. If ever you find yourself sickly at any time, you must take each of you a teaspoonful of this honey ; I will remit...
Página 230 - ... or other of the spiritual felonies and treasons which had been lately created. Generally the court dispensed with the examination of witnesses : by artful and ensnaring questions an avowal was drawn from the prisoner, that he had been reconciled, or had harboured a priest, or had been ordained beyond the sea, or that he admitted the ecclesiastical supremacy of the pope, or rejected that of the queen. Any one of these crimes was sufficient to consign him to the scaffold.
Página 240 - The place of execution was the tolboth, six or seven yards " from the prison. After she had prayed, Fawcet (one of the " sheriffs) commanded them to put off her apparel ; when she, " with the four women, requested him on their knees, that, for " the honour of womanhood, this might be dispensed with. But " they would not grant it. Then she requested them, that the " women might unapparel her, and that they would turne their " faces from her during that time.
Página 216 - Cromwell," one of the chief among them broke fiercely out as he stood at the council board, "it is thou that art the very special and chief cause of all this rebellion and wickedness, and dost daily travail to bring us to our ends and strike off our heads. I trust that ere thou die, though thou wouldst procure all the noblest heads within the realm to be stricken off, yet there shall one head remain that shall strike off thy head.
Página 105 - He was a child of about eleven, with a bright fresh face. ' Had he any clothes on, and if so, what were they like?' I asked. But John was unable to tell me. His astonishment was so great that he took no notice of particulars. The boy rode on till he came to a gate which led into a field. He stopped as if to open the gate, rode through, and all was instantly dark.

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