 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 Seiten
...and the Earl of Strafford was in this year executed. ' I beheld,' says Evelyn, ' on Tower-Hill, the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford.' The King had not courage to save him. In this year, also, the High Commission and Star Chamber were... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 Seiten
...and the Earl of Strafford was in this year executed. ' I beheld,' savs Evelyn, ' on Tower-Hill, the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafibrd.' The King had not courage to save him. In this year, also, the High Commission and Star... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 Seiten
...happy monarch in the world.' On the 12th of May, 1641, he ' bebeld on Tower Hill, the fatal stroke that severed the wisest head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Straffbrd.' Dismayed at 'this ill face of things,' he took the prudent resolution to absent himself... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 Seiten
...it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in his Diary, says— ' I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 Seiten
...it. God forgive all, and be merciful !' Evelyn, in his Diary, says— ' I beheld on Tower-hill, the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived.' Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 Seiten
...God forgive all, and be merciful !' , Evelyn, in his Diary, says— • 1 I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...destruction ; to such exorbitancy were things arrived." Yet this exorbitancy, this perversion of law, this mockery of justice, this national crime, is palliated,... | |
 | 1842 - 360 Seiten
...excellent Evelyn also says, under date of that sanguinary 12th of May, 1641, " I beheld on Tower Hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...the Earl of Strafford; whose crime coming under the cognisance of no human law, a new one was made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction : to such... | |
 | 1848 - 456 Seiten
...At the * Sir P. Warwick's Memoirs, 162. Evelyn, in his " Diary," says, "I beheld, on Tower Hill, the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...destruction —to such exorbitancy were things arrived." \ ' • . • .. f .•••' .'* '. -v -... If! ii, - ''-\ i f I'..'- . :-. «-i-.:. !..;-. -., .-'u':... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 Seiten
...presumptions of great virtue." — NICHOLS, Calv. p. 289. EVELYN says, " I beheld on Tower Hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...laws and statutes voted in the last parliament ; so 1 That letter was л forgery. — CARTE'S Ormonde, vol. 1, p. 138. many provisions of state, regulating... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 Seiten
...impeachment, defence, 1 Baillie's "Letters," voL ip 217. * "On this 12th of May, I beheld on Tower Hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England...made, not to be a precedent, but his destruction." — Evelyn's Diary. betrayal by the King, and dying scene contain one of the sublimest tragedies to... | |
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On the 12th of May, I beheld on Tower-hill the fatal stroke which severed the wisest head in England from the shoulders of the Earl of Strafford... 
