Authorised Guide to the Tower of LondonH.M. Stationery Office, 1888 - 152 pages |
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... Executioner's Sword , of the King of Oude , and in the same case a similar weapon from Dahomey the Sacrificial Sword from Nepaul , and the curious mounted figure in armour for man and horse , consisting of small plate and chainwork ...
... Executioner's Sword , of the King of Oude , and in the same case a similar weapon from Dahomey the Sacrificial Sword from Nepaul , and the curious mounted figure in armour for man and horse , consisting of small plate and chainwork ...
Page 76
... executioner chip it off . " This being done he prepared himself for the blow , by taking off his coat and waistcoat and laying down his head ; and he told the executioner that the sign he should give to him to do his office would be ...
... executioner chip it off . " This being done he prepared himself for the blow , by taking off his coat and waistcoat and laying down his head ; and he told the executioner that the sign he should give to him to do his office would be ...
Page 79
... executioner asked him forgivenesse , to whom hee sayd , ' I forgive thee with all my heart , and doe thy part without feare . ' And bowing toward the blocke , hee said , ' I have deserved a thousand deathes , ' hee layd his head upon ...
... executioner asked him forgivenesse , to whom hee sayd , ' I forgive thee with all my heart , and doe thy part without feare . ' And bowing toward the blocke , hee said , ' I have deserved a thousand deathes , ' hee layd his head upon ...
Page 88
... executioner , and repeated the creed after Doctor Montford . So opening and pulling off his doublet , he was in a scarlet waistcoate , and then readie to lye downe he said he would only stretch forth his armes and spread them abroad for ...
... executioner , and repeated the creed after Doctor Montford . So opening and pulling off his doublet , he was in a scarlet waistcoate , and then readie to lye downe he said he would only stretch forth his armes and spread them abroad for ...
Page 89
... executioner strike home ; and at three strokes he stroke off his head , and when his head was off in the executioner's hand his eyes did open and shut as in the time of his prayer ; his bodie never stirred , neither anie part of him ...
... executioner strike home ; and at three strokes he stroke off his head , and when his head was off in the executioner's hand his eyes did open and shut as in the time of his prayer ; his bodie never stirred , neither anie part of him ...
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Page 120 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone.
Page 120 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Page 100 - But Laud's influence was really derived from this oneness of purpose. He directed all the power of a clear, narrow mind and a dogged will to the realization of a single aim. His resolve was to raise the Church of England to what he conceived to be its real position as a branch, though a reformed branch, of the great Catholic Church throughout the world...
Page 122 - I have suffered a great deal of misery and cruel sickness. And I thank God that my fever hath not taken me at this time, as I prayed God it might not, that I might clear myself of some accusations unjustly laid to my.
Page 94 - Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. The fact against the queen's highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me : but touching the procurement and desire thereof by me, or on my behalf, I do wash my hands thereof in innocency before God. and the face of you, good Christian people, this day:" and therewith she wrung her hands, wherein she had her book.
Page 95 - What shall I do ? where is it ? One of the bystanders guiding her thereunto, she laid her head down upon the block, and stretched forth her body, and said, Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
Page 82 - Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before Thee, O God, I speak it.
Page 127 - The duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o'clock in the morning.
Page 96 - Shore's wife, with their affinity, have by their sorcery and witchcraft wasted my body.' " And therewith he plucked up his doublet sleeve to his elbow upon his left arm, where he showed a werish withered arm and small, as it was never other.
Page 55 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.