A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, Volume 1Thomas Bayly Howell T.C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... executed in private ; with us always openly and in public , it being necessary to answer the end of Justice , that a public example be made of Offenders in order to deter others from the like crimes ; but where the Trial and Execution ...
... executed in private ; with us always openly and in public , it being necessary to answer the end of Justice , that a public example be made of Offenders in order to deter others from the like crimes ; but where the Trial and Execution ...
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... Execution , ( as must be the case where Death is made the common punishment for ordinary crimes ) the frequency of the example destroys the terror of it , and makes it less dreaded than going to the Galleys or any place of hard labour ...
... Execution , ( as must be the case where Death is made the common punishment for ordinary crimes ) the frequency of the example destroys the terror of it , and makes it less dreaded than going to the Galleys or any place of hard labour ...
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... execution of them . How unreasonable is it that a Criminal sentenced to be whipt should lie at the mercy of a vile executioner , and that it should be left in the power of a common hangman to make that Whipping as severe or as favour ...
... execution of them . How unreasonable is it that a Criminal sentenced to be whipt should lie at the mercy of a vile executioner , and that it should be left in the power of a common hangman to make that Whipping as severe or as favour ...
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... executed or not ; and ( where it , could be had ) an Account also is added of his Behaviour and Speech at the place of Execution . ( m ) Annal . lib . 3. § 25 . And whereas in the former Edition some Trials were inserted xl PREFACES TO ...
... executed or not ; and ( where it , could be had ) an Account also is added of his Behaviour and Speech at the place of Execution . ( m ) Annal . lib . 3. § 25 . And whereas in the former Edition some Trials were inserted xl PREFACES TO ...
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... Execution should lapse before such execution done , whether a new time may be appointed for the execution , and by whom ? " · As the Affair of Mr. Annesley and lord Anglesea made a great noise , some years ago , and occasioned four ...
... Execution should lapse before such execution done , whether a new time may be appointed for the execution , and by whom ? " · As the Affair of Mr. Annesley and lord Anglesea made a great noise , some years ago , and occasioned four ...
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Page 629 - In the name of God amen. The 1 st day of September in the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Henry VIII by the grace of God King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head, and in the year of our Lord God 1544.
Page 763 - JANE, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, under Christ, in Earth the supreme Head.
Page 737 - One example, whether love or fear doth work more in a child for virtue and learning, I will gladly report ; which may be heard with some pleasure, and followed with more profit. Before I went into Germany...
Page 457 - JAMES, by the grace of God, king of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith; and of Scotland the seven and fortieth.
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Page 383 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 819 - And forasmuch as my hand offended, writing contrary to my heart, my hand shall first be punished therefore ; for, may I come to the fire, it shall be first burned.
Page 819 - And now I come to the great thing that so much troubleth my conscience more than any thing that ever I did or said in my whole life...
Page 367 - The hour of my death now approaching, I cannot choose but, out of the love I bear you, advise you of your soul's health, which you ought to prefer before all considerations of the world or flesh whatsoever ; for which yet you have cast me into many calamities, and yourself into many troubles. But I forgive you all, and pray God to do so likewise.
Page 817 - Father, unto death for small sins only, but for all the greatest sins of the world, so that the sinner return to thee with his whole heart, as I do here at this present.