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... morning sentence was pronounced. Jeffreys gave directions that Alice Lisle should be burned alive that very afternoon. This excess of barbarity moved the pity and indignation even of the class which was most devoted to the crown. The clergy of Winchester...

Black's Guide to the South-western Counties of England: Dorsetshire - Página 41
1862 - 417 páginas
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Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History, 1609-1925, Volumen1

Alden Chester, Edwin Melvin Williams - 2005 - 1554 páginas

...most devoted to the Crown. The clergy of Winchester Cathedral remonstrated _ with the Chief Justice, who, brutal as he was, was not mad enough to risk...time the friends of the prisoner besought James to show her mercy. Ladies of high rank interceded for her. Feversham . . . spoke in her favor. Clarendon,...

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