I. Abbott's Journal. II. The Trials at Manchester in 1694 |
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Page 11 - to conduct political prosecutions, to collect the evidence, to instruct the Counsel for the Crown, to see that the prisoners were not liberated on insufficient bail, to see that the juries were not composed of persons hostile to the government." It will not excite the surprise of the reader to find bail refused by this
Page 1 - it stood a siege of eight days against Cromwell. Considerable portions of the walls, with two of its gates, still remain as ruins. Lord Macaulay describes it as being, at that time, a small knot of narrow, crooked, and filthy lanes, encircled by a ditch and a mound, the houses being built of wood with high gables and projecting upper stories.
Page 6 - liberty of ever going out of the roume or other conveniences but a great chamb r pot for both uses, my bed was hunge about with ould Cittermister Cortanes 15 and hoales in them so big as I could creep much weight of iron as they could bear, and more, so that they should be unable to rise.
Page xxi - petitioned, amongst other things, for criminals under trial for their lives, to bring forward witnesses in their own defence, James replied " that he could not in conscience grant such an indulgence. It would encourage and multiply perjury. Men were already accustomed to forswear themselves even in civil actions ; what less could be expected when the life of a friend was at stake
Page 22 - own signature to his answer to the questions submitted by the attorney for his opinion. He was Attorney General in the reign of Charles II., and afterwards one of the justices of Common Pleas, from which station he was displaced in the reign of
Page 16 - the pettition be to himself but that if you designe to petition, it unsuccessful defence of Sir John Fenwick in 1696, who was put to death, writes Lord Campbell, in a manner which would have been condemned in the worst days of the Stuarts.
Page 25 - Covent Garden anciently belonged to the Abbots and Monks of Westminster, whence it derived its name, Convent Garden. At the dissolution of religious houses it fell to the Crown, and was given to Edward, Duke of Somerset, and after his . attainder, to John,
Page 35 - the impending danger, generally retired from their own habitations ; some, however, were taken and imprisoned." The history of these trials, published by the