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The Quarterly Review - Page 468
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Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, King of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - 1828 - 366 pages
...when it please God to restore to their former vigour, I will take it farther into my consideration." In the next month Eliot was no more. He died in the...was, " Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the * Anthony Wood erroneously conjectured that he died about 1629. church of that parish where he died."...
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The Englishman's magazine [ed. by E. Moxon].

1831 - 702 pages
...affectionate son, desirous that his poor father might be buried in the tomb of his ancestors? — " Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died :" and it was accordingly laid in the chapel of the Tower! Such was the life and such the death of...
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Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, Volume 1

Lucy Aikin - 1833 - 570 pages
...to be carried into Cornwall, there to be buried. Whereto was answered at the foot of the petition: ' Let sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.' And so it was buried in the Tower*." ' Harl. MSS. 7000, fol. 186. as quoted by lord Nugent in his Memorials...
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Memoirs of John Selden: And Notices of the Political Contest During His Time

George William Johnson - 1835 - 398 pages
...to be allowed to convey the body of his father into Cornwall ; and the inexorable, the obeyed answer was — " Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died." His ashes rest in the Tower chapel*. It has been observed, that a work by Sir John Eliot remains unpublished...
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Memoirs of John Selden and Notices of the Political Contest ..., Volume 25

George William Johnson - 1835 - 396 pages
...to be allowed to convey the body of his father into Cornwall ; and the inexorable, the obeyed answer was — " Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died." His ashes rest in the Tower chapel*. It has been observed, that a work by Sir John Eliot remains unpublished...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 3

Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...Cornwall, there to be buried ; but the unfeeling monarch immediately indorsed on the application, " Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died." The house of commons afterwards voted £5,000 to the martyred patriot's family. D'Israeli has made...
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The History of England, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 566 pages
...children petitioned to be allowed to take his body to Cornwall, to lay it in the tomb of his ancestors. " Let sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died," was the unfeeling reply of the monarch. Thus terminated Charles's third parliament. As we shall now...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1839 - 764 pages
...buried. Whereto was answered at the foot of the petition, (we believe with the royal autograph,) ' Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish wherein he died !' A paltry piece of heartless spite, on the lifeless body of a man, appropriately...
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The History of England under the House of Stuart, including the Commonwealth ...

Robert Vaughan - 1840 - 506 pages
...be taken to Cornwall, and interred in the family sepulchre ; and Charles returned for answer, — " Let sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died! " Not two months before his death, Eliot wrote to Hampden, stating that he was then subject to new...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People ..., Volume 4

George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 686 pages
...to be buried, in his native soil, among his ancestors. Charles wrote at the foot of the petition, " Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died ;" and accordingly it was thrust into an obscure corner of the Tower church.* Sir Edward Coke had gone...
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