| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 страници
...hanged, much to the disgrace of the administration of justice. "Neither the judges," says Clarendon, 9 "nor any present at the trial, did believe him guilty;...of his life, and chose to part with it this way." A medal was struck in commemoration of the plague and fire. The eye of God is in the centre ; one comet... | |
| Walter George Bell - 1920 - 584 страници
...baker's house, the source of all the catastrophe, was already a public show. Clarendon wrote of him : " And though no man could imagine any reason why a man...wretch, weary of his life, and chose to part with it in this way." CHAPTER XI OUTCEY AGAINST THE CATHOLICS THE King was greatly perturbed by the popular... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 664 страници
...to Clarendon, neither the judges nor any person present at his trial believed his story, but all saw that he was a poor distracted wretch, weary of his life and anxious to part with it in this way. Yet the jury found him guilty, and the king and the judges, notwithstanding... | |
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