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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Pagina 15
... murder . All places of public business and amusement were deserted during these proceedings , so intense was the curiosity thus excited . Ordinary courts of law presented the appearance of the Long Vacation . One contemporary letter ...
... murder . All places of public business and amusement were deserted during these proceedings , so intense was the curiosity thus excited . Ordinary courts of law presented the appearance of the Long Vacation . One contemporary letter ...
Pagina 19
... murder of Sir T. Overbury , was first men- tioned , she put her fan before her face , and there held it covering her face till the reading of the indictment was concluded . The Clerk of the Crown then asked her , " Frances Countess of ...
... murder of Sir T. Overbury , was first men- tioned , she put her fan before her face , and there held it covering her face till the reading of the indictment was concluded . The Clerk of the Crown then asked her , " Frances Countess of ...
Pagina 24
... murder committed by her scarcely three months before , and was agonizing her with the " rooted sorrows " of a mind such as our immortal Poet has depicted that of the blood - stained Lady Macbeth . The Countess of Somerset must have been ...
... murder committed by her scarcely three months before , and was agonizing her with the " rooted sorrows " of a mind such as our immortal Poet has depicted that of the blood - stained Lady Macbeth . The Countess of Somerset must have been ...
Pagina 26
... adultery and murder , with the apposite example of David and Bathsheba , were the topics in the mouths of those great men which were substituted for their former gratulatory presents of gold and silver , for 26 THE GREAT OYER.
... adultery and murder , with the apposite example of David and Bathsheba , were the topics in the mouths of those great men which were substituted for their former gratulatory presents of gold and silver , for 26 THE GREAT OYER.
Pagina 27
... murdered one , in total solitude , and in the darkness of midnight , the murderess should be appalled with the apprehen- sion of being visited by the spectre of her victim . The Countess of Somerset has , however , a claim on general ...
... murdered one , in total solitude , and in the darkness of midnight , the murderess should be appalled with the apprehen- sion of being visited by the spectre of her victim . The Countess of Somerset has , however , a claim on general ...
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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...
Pagina 439 - Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First ; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.
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.
Pagina 521 - As soon as you can hear his knell, This god on earth turns devil in hell : And lo ! his ministers of state...
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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.