 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 pages
...executed Colonel Vrats, for the execrable murder of Mr. Thynne, set on by the principal, Konigsmark : he went to execution like an undaunted hero, as one that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Konigsmark, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pages
...executed Colonel Vrats, for the execrable murder of Mr. Thynne, set on by the principal, Konigsmark : he went to execution like an undaunted hero, as one that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Konigsmark, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 pages
...of his accomplices, for the execrable murder of Mr. Thynn,* set on by the principal Koningsmark ; he went to execution like an undaunted hero, as one that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Koningsmark, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt... | |
 | John Edward Jackson - 1857 - 52 pages
...he treated it all very cavalierly. Evelyn mentions in his Memoirs (1. 541) under date of 10th Mareh, that Vratz went to execution like an undaunted hero,...dying, of a rush. On the 24th March Evelyn went to see the corpse "of that obstinate creature, Vratz," the King having permitted that his body should... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 pages
...of his accomplices, for the execrable murder of Mr Thynne, set on by the principal Kiininesmark ; he b d l ia xam — Count Koningsmark. who had hopes to marry his [Mr Th ynne's] widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 338 pages
...Borosky, who fired the blunderbuss, was suspended in chains near MileEnd, as above stated. Evelyn tells us that " Vratz went to execution like an undaunted hero,...that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Koningsmarck, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 pages
...of his accomplices, for the execrable murder of Mr. Thynn1, set on by the principal Konigsmark ; he went to execution like an undaunted hero, as one that...; had done a friendly office for that base coward C. -Koningsmark, who - ,j had hopes to marry his widow the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 540 pages
...Borosky, who fired the blunderbuss, was suspended in chains near MileEnd, as above stated. Evelyn tells us that " Vratz went to execution like an undaunted hero,...that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Koningsmarck, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 450 pages
...of his accomplices, for the execrable murder of Mr. Thynn,1 set on by the principal Koningsmark. He went to execution like an undaunted hero, as one that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Koningsmark, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was acquitted by a corrupt... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 pages
...murder of Mr Thynne, set on by the principal Koningsmark ; he went to execution like an undaunted ñero, as one that had done a friendly office for that base coward, — Count Köningemark, who had hopes to marry his [Mr Thynne's] widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and was... | |
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Vrats told a friend of mine who accompanied him to the gallows, and gave him some advice, that he did not value dying of a rush, and hoped and believed God... 
