The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, in the Tower of London, and Various Matters Connected Therewith, from Contemporary MssR. Bentley, 1846 - 551 pagina's |
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... course of the Overbury trials , or are to be found in contemporary histories , give room * Sir A. Weldon's " Court and Character of King James . " Wilson , the intimate friend of Lord Essex , confirms this story . He says that " another ...
... course of the Overbury trials , or are to be found in contemporary histories , give room * Sir A. Weldon's " Court and Character of King James . " Wilson , the intimate friend of Lord Essex , confirms this story . He says that " another ...
Pagina 51
... course of the trial that will be set forth in the following pages . It is there represented that Sir T. Overbury exercised for several years the extraordinary vocation of im- parting ideas and language to the Earl of Somerset , as to a ...
... course of the trial that will be set forth in the following pages . It is there represented that Sir T. Overbury exercised for several years the extraordinary vocation of im- parting ideas and language to the Earl of Somerset , as to a ...
Pagina 59
... . The course of proceeding , in ancient times , for crushing an individual who had excited fears or * kindled hatred in the breast of a Sovereign , OF POISONING . 59 CHAPTER II REPORTS OF THE TRIAL OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET.
... . The course of proceeding , in ancient times , for crushing an individual who had excited fears or * kindled hatred in the breast of a Sovereign , OF POISONING . 59 CHAPTER II REPORTS OF THE TRIAL OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET.
Pagina 69
... course that I will hold in delivering of that which I shall say , for I love order , is this : -First , I will speak somewhat of the nature and greatness of the offence which is now to be tried , not to weigh down my Lord with the ...
... course that I will hold in delivering of that which I shall say , for I love order , is this : -First , I will speak somewhat of the nature and greatness of the offence which is now to be tried , not to weigh down my Lord with the ...
Pagina 73
... course : First , I will make a narration of the fact itself ; secondly , I will break and distribute the proofs as they concern the prisoner ; and , thirdly , according to the distri- bution , I will produce them , and read them , to ...
... course : First , I will make a narration of the fact itself ; secondly , I will break and distribute the proofs as they concern the prisoner ; and , thirdly , according to the distri- bution , I will produce them , and read them , to ...
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accused answered appear arraignment Bacon Ben Jonson cause Chancellor circumstances clyster Coke Coke's handwriting concerning confessed conviction Countess of Essex Countess of Somerset Court delivered desired Domestic Papers Earl and Countess Earl of Somerset evidence examination favour Franklin give guilty hand hath Helwysse honour imprisonment indictment Judges Jury King James King's knew Lady letter Lieutenant Lobell Lord Chancellor Lord Chief Justice Lord Coke Lord High Steward Lord of Somerset lordship majesty majesty's Majty Majty's Masque matter means mercy Mounson murder never observed occasion offence Overbury's death Oyer of Poisoning Paper Office pardon Peers persons plot powder present presumptions Prince printed report proceedings proof Queen regard secret sent Serjeant servant Sir F Sir Robert Cotton Sir Thomas Overbury Somerset's trial Sovereign speech tarts testimony things thought tion told Tower treason truth Turner unto Villiers Weston wherein whereof whilst wife witnesses words writes written
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Pagina 450 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 521 - Which, form'd into a garland sweet, Lay humbly at your monarch's feet ; Who, as the odours reach his throne, Will smile, and think them all his own ; For law and...
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Pagina 450 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...
Pagina 450 - ... more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Pagina 196 - Since laws were made, for every degree, To curb vice in others, as well as me, I wonder we han't better company Upon Tyburn tree.
Pagina 496 - Law then show her face ; They could not be content to look on Grace, Her hinder parts, but with a daring eye To tempt the terror of her front and die. By their own arts, 'tis righteously decreed, 1010 Those dire artificers of death shall bleed.
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Pagina 448 - am not wholly out of hope,' said he, in a letter to the King, ' that ' my Lord Coke himself, when I have in some dark manner put ' him in doubt that he shall be left alone, will not be singular.