 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pages
...inasmuch as he had "endeavoured by his words, actions, and counsels, to subvert the fundamental kws of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government." " Shall it be treason," he said, " to embase the king's coin, though but a piece of twelvepence or... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Great Britain - 1867 - 342 pages
...the nation. He had "endeavoured by his words, actions, and counsels, to subvert the fundamental laws of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government." The Act of Attainder was not in those days what it would be in ours, an instrument of which no just... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1868 - 476 pages
...impeached Thomas Earl of Strafford for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental government of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law in the said kingdoms ; be it enacted that he shall suffer the pain of death". Thus did... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Statesmen - 1868 - 338 pages
...nation.__He had ' endeavoured by his words, actions, and counsels, to subvert the fundamental laws of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government/ The Act of Attainder was not in those days what it would be in ours, an instrument of which no just... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1870 - 954 pages
...inasmuch as he had " endeavoured by his words, actions, and counsels, to subvert the fundamental laws of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government." " Shall it be treason," he said, " to embase the king's coin, though but a piece of twelvepence or... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Constitutional history - 1889 - 452 pages
...treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law in the said kingdoms, and for exercising a tyrannous and exorbitant power over and against... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Constitutional history - 1889 - 460 pages
...ejideaxeuring to subvert the ancient j1nd funda/i^ mental_lasEa-^ad^gaw*Muneiiit of. His Majesty's realms* of" England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and. tyrannical government against £wE"I2£"fKe sa1d kingdoms,._ and Jor exercising a tyrannous and ^exorbitant power- oyer J... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Constitutional history - 1899 - 620 pages
...treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and •J government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law in the said kingdoms, and for exercising a tyrannous and exorbitant power above and against... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Great Britain - 1899 - 672 pages
...nation, in " having endeavoured by his words, actions, and counsels to subvert the fundamental laws of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government." Of this he was guilty, and if the proof does not seem to us complete, it seemed complete to the men... | |
 | George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens - Constitutional history - 1901 - 598 pages
...treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government, against law, in the said kingdoms, and for exercising a tyrannous and exorbitant power over and against... | |
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Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government... 
