Criminal trials [by D. Jardine].Lilly, Wait, Colman, Holden, 1835 - Great Britain |
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... causes which led to the conspiracy . For the indictments and the facts connected with the formal proceedings on the several trials , which are for the first time accurately published in the following reports , the reader is indebted to ...
... causes which led to the conspiracy . For the indictments and the facts connected with the formal proceedings on the several trials , which are for the first time accurately published in the following reports , the reader is indebted to ...
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... caused the repeal of all persecuting laws against Catholics , and the question of emancipation is no longer the watch- word of political party , that this obstacle to the dis- covery of truth will be removed , and that writers of 2 ...
... caused the repeal of all persecuting laws against Catholics , and the question of emancipation is no longer the watch- word of political party , that this obstacle to the dis- covery of truth will be removed , and that writers of 2 ...
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... causes which led to it , the motives and objects of the conspirators , -the extent to which the knowledge of it prevailed amongst Catholics in England and abroad , and the degree of encouragement it received from the Catholic clergy ...
... causes which led to it , the motives and objects of the conspirators , -the extent to which the knowledge of it prevailed amongst Catholics in England and abroad , and the degree of encouragement it received from the Catholic clergy ...
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... causes which produced the Gunpowder Treason , and to comprehend the motives of those who were engaged in it , it is necessary to consider generally the state of the English Catholics at that precise period , and to take a summary view ...
... causes which produced the Gunpowder Treason , and to comprehend the motives of those who were engaged in it , it is necessary to consider generally the state of the English Catholics at that precise period , and to take a summary view ...
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... caused the execution of his mother ; they knew that several of the ordinances of the Roman Church were approved by him ... cause of James , by the express assurances of a tolera- tion for their religion , which were generally reported to ...
... caused the execution of his mother ; they knew that several of the ordinances of the Roman Church were approved by him ... cause of James , by the express assurances of a tolera- tion for their religion , which were generally reported to ...
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Abington acquainted afterwards Anne Vaux answered Antilogia asked Attorney-General Bates Baynham breves Catesby's cellar church conference confesseth confession conspiracy conspirators Coughton death declared discovery doctrine Dunchurch Earl of Salisbury Edmund Baynham Elizabeth England English Catholics equivocation examinate execution fact Father Greenway Fawkes Flanders Francis Tresham gentleman Greenway Greenway's Guido Fawkes Gunpowder Plot Hall hath Hendlip Henry Garnet horses indictment interlocutions Jesuits John Wright justice Keyes King of Spain King's knew letter London Lord Mounteagle Lord Salisbury lordship Majesty Majesty's matter ment never November oath offence Oldcorne Owen Parliament House party Percy persons Pope Powder Plot Powder Treason priests princes privy Protestant purpose Queen recusants respecting Robert Catesby Robert Keyes Robert Winter Rome Rookwood sacrament saith says sent Sir Edward Coke Sir Everard Digby Sir Thomas Sir William Waad State-Paper Office taken Tesmond thereof thing Thomas Winter thought tion told Tower traitors trial unto whole
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Page 30 - You shall swear by the Blessed Trinity, and by the sacrament you propose to receive, never to disclose directly or indirectly, by word or circumstance, the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret, nor desist from the execution thereof, until the rest shall give you leave.
Page 280 - ... the mouth ; according to that which is written, " The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all).
Page 191 - Garnet's trial, said he was one having " many excellent gifts and endowments of nature: by birth a gentleman, by education a scholar, by art learned, and a good linguist.
Page 97 - I find his friends were marvellous confident, if he had escaped this sickness, and have given out words in this place that they feared not the course of justice.
Page 309 - This I acknowledge to be according to my opinion and the " opinion of the schoolmen. And our reason is, for that, in cases of " lawful equivocation, the speech by equivocation being saved from a " lye, the same speech may be without perjury confirmed by oath, " or by any other usual way, though it were by receiving the sacra"ment, if just necessity so require. — Henry Garnet.
Page 12 - ... presence, he , unfit to accompany any Christian person ; forthwith said he was fitter for a pair of stocks, commanded him out of the court, and yet to attend her council's pleasure at Norwich he was committed.
Page 151 - I said again, I would take such part as they did. About eleven of the clock came the company to beset the house, and, as I walked into the court, I was shot into the shoulder, which lost me the use of my arm; the next shot was the elder Wright struck dead ; after him the younger Mr. Wright; and fourthly, Ambrose Rookwood. Then said Mr. Catesby to me (standing before the door they were to enter), " Stand by me, Tom, and we will die together.
Page 73 - That, if he had happened to be within the house, when he took him, as he was immediately before (at the ending of his work), he would not have failed to have blown him up, house and all.
Page 144 - Constable would faithfully help us or no. He said he believed nothing less, and that they sought only their own ends holding small account of Catholics. I told him that there were many gentlemen in England, who would not forsake their country, until they had tried the uttermost, and rather venture their lives, than forsake her in this misery. And to add one more to our number, as a fit man both for counsel and execution of whatsoever we should resolve, wished for Mr. Fawkes, whom I had heard good...
Page 155 - Ihey did confer and agree upon the plot, and there " they took a solemn oath and vows by all their force and power to " execute the same, and of secrecy not to reveal any of their fellows, " but to such as should be thought fit persons to enter into that " action ; and in the same house they did receive the sacrament of " Gerard the Jesuit, to perform their vow and of secrecy aforesaid. " But that Gerard was not acquainted with their purpose.