The Lives of the English Regicides: And Other Commissioners of the Pretended High Court of Justice, Appointed to Sit in Judgement Upon Their Sovereign, King Charles the First, Volume 2J. Stockdale, 1798 - Great Britain |
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Page 52 - My masters, he is come, he is come, and now we are doing that great work that the whole nation will be full of ; therefore I desire you to let us resolve here what answer we shall give the king when he comes before us; for the first question that he will ask us, will be, by what authority and commission do we try him ? ' To which none answered presently.
Page 51 - My Lord, I did see a pen in Mr. Cromwell's hand, and he marked Mr. Marten in the face with it, and Mr. Marten did the like to him...
Page 59 - ... life. A blank, then, suddenly falls here on the gaiety, the grace, the high purposes, the wit of Harry Marten ! — a blank even felt by the most prejudiced advocates of the men it had been the business of his life to oppose. Such," says one of them, " was the last sad doom of this man, whose quickness of thought, elegance of manners, vivacity, wit, and charming gaiety had often fascinated, not only the convivial board, but the grave, austere, sour, republican chiefs in the house of commons,...
Page 69 - No man more obsequious to the court than he, whilst it flourished ; a great flatterer of all persons in authority, and a spy in all places for them. From the beginning of the parliament, he concurred with those who were most violent against the court, and most like to prevail against it ; and being thereupon branded with ingratitude, as that brand commonly makes men most impudent, he continued his desperate pace with them, till he became one of the murderers of his master.
Page 159 - The way, sir, to free you from this temptation is for you not to look upon yourself to be under it, but to rest persuaded that the power of the nation is in the good people of England, as formerly it was.
Page 52 - Brereton had concluded on such a business : then turning to the board, said thus : — ' My masters, he is come, he is come, and now we are doing that great work that the whole nation will be full of; therefore I desire you to let us...
Page 286 - Sir, you have an intention to be arbitrator between the parliament and us, and we mean to be so between you and the parliament.
Page 50 - The lord chief baron retorted : — "I instanced that of a watchman, to show there may be a malice by law, though not expressed ; though a man kill a watchman, intending to kill another man, in that case it is malice in law against him : so in this case, if you went to kill the king when he was not doing his office, because he was in prison, and you hindered him from it, the law implies malice in this. It is true, all actions are circumstantiated, but the killing of the king is treason of all...
Page 124 - I sat amongst them that day of the sentence ; but I cannot remember I was there when the sentence passed. My sitting amongst them was out of ignorance ; I knew not •what I did; therefore I hope you will believe there was nothing of malice in any thing I did ; I was misled in it.
Page 107 - Basil) but you cannot take away my comfort ; my head, but not my crown ; yea, said he, had I a thousand lives, I would lay them all down for my Saviour's sake, who hath done abundantly more for me." John Ardley professed to Bonner, when he told him of burning, and how ill he could endure it, " That if he had as many lives, as he had hairs on his head, he would lose them all in the fire, before he would lose his Christ.