Memoirs of the Life of Judge Jeffrys: Sometime Lord High Channellor of EnglandH. Colburn, 1827 - 442 頁 |
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acquainted Alderman answer asked assizes attorney baron begged bishops blood brother brought Burnet called Chancery charge Charles Common Pleas considerable counsel court crown death declared defendant died dissenters Duke of York Earl England evidence execution Farewel father favour freys friends gentleman George Treby give guilty heard honour House of Commons James Jefferies Jeffreys's Job Charlton judge judge's judgment jury King King's Bench King's counsel Lady lawyer London lord chancellor lord chief justice Lord Jeffreys lord keeper lord mayor lordship Majesty matter ment mercy monarch Monmouth never North occasion pardon parliament party peers persons petition popish popish plot prisoner punishment recorder refused reign Richard Holloway Roger North royal Scroggs seal seems sent sentence serjeant sheriff Sir George Jeffreys Sir John Trevor soon afterwards Taunton tell thing thought tion told took treason trial trimmer Ward whig William witness
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第 392 頁 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
第 101 頁 - Lord, what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
第 62 頁 - ... said he was every night drinking till two o'clock, or beyond that time, and that he went to his chamber drunk ; but this I have only by common fame, for I was not in his company — I bless God I am not a man of his principles or behaviour — but in the mornings he appeared with the symptoms of a man that overnight had taken a large cup.
第 168 頁 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
第 169 頁 - Lord, sir, you must be cackling too ; we told you your objection was very ingenious, but that must not make you troublesome ; you cannot lay an egg but you must be cackling over it.
第 119 頁 - Withings, danced with the bride, ana were exceeding merry ! These great men spent the rest of the afternoon, till eleven at night, in drinking healths, taking tobacco, and talking much beneath the gravity of judges that had but a day or two before condemned Mr. Algernon Sidney, who was executed the 7th of Dec.
第 175 頁 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
第 225 頁 - ... stands up and says, He is a good man (though three parts a rebel). Well then, for the sake of Mr. Alderman, he shall be fined but five shillings. Then comes another, and up stands another goodman Alderman, and says, I know him to be an honest man (though rather worse than the former). Well, for Mr. Alderman's sake, he shall be fined but half-a-crown...
第 130 頁 - I hope, gentlemen of the jury, you take notice of the strange and horrible carriage of this fellow ; and withal, you cannot but observe the spirit of that sort of people, what a villainous and devilish one it is ; Good God ! that ever the thing called religion (a word that people have so much abused) should ever wind up persons to such a height of impiety, that it should make them lose the belief...
第 61 頁 - He was witty upon the prisoners at the bar. He was very full of his jokes upon people that came to give evidence, not suffering them to declare what they had to say in their own way and method, but would interrupt them because they behaved themselves with more gravity than he.