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Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench ... - Page 217
1825
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Utopia: Containing an Impartial History of the Manners, Customs ..., Volume 2

Saint Thomas More - 1808 - 334 pages
...for my coming damn let me shift for myself!' As soon as be had ascended it, he desired all the people to pray for him, and to bear witness with him, ' that he should then suffer death, in and for the faith of the holy catholic church, a faithful servant both of GOD...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pages
...the scaffold was weakly built, he turned to the lieutenant of the Tower and said, " I pray you, Mr. lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." He desired the spectators to pray for him, and to bear witness that he died in and for the holy catholic...
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An Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea and Its Environs ...

Thomas Faulkner - 1810 - 514 pages
...him too weak, and ready to fall, he said merrily to the lieutenant of the Tower, " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." After his prayers were ended, he turned to the executioner, and said with a cheerful countenance, "...
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Lives of British Statesmen, Volume 1

John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 412 pages
...scaffold was weakly erected, he said, in his usual tone, to the attending officer, " I pray thee, friend, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Observing the executioner pale and trembling, he said to him, " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not...
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The Life of Sir Thomas More

William Roper - 1822 - 262 pages
...scaffold, which was so weak that it was ready to fall, he said merrily to the Lieutenant, " I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming...the people thereabout to pray for him, and to bear wituess with him, that he should now there 8uffer__de_athjin and for the faith of the holy Catholic...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 14

1823 - 880 pages
...Mccndcd the scalFold, which seemed so weak that it was ready to fall -, whereupon, " I pray (said he) sec me- safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." His prayers being ended, be turned to the executioner, and with a cheerful countenance said, " Pluck...
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English stories

Maria Hack - 1825 - 490 pages
...scaffold was weakly erected, he said, in his usual tone, to the attending officer, " I pray thee, friend, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Observing the executioner pale and trembling, he said to him: " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not...
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Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth, Volume 2

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1826 - 742 pages
...scaffold, which was unstable, More, whose jocular vein did not desert him, said to Kingston, " I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." When on the scaffold, he called all present to bear witness that he suffered for the faith of the catholic...
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A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical ..., Volume 4

John Platts - 1826 - 622 pages
...the scaffold was weakly built, he turned to the lieutenant of the Tower, and said, " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." He desired the spectators to pray for him, and to bear witness that he died in and for the holy Catholic...
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A New Universal Biography: Forming the first volume of series III

John Platts - 1826 - 632 pages
...the scaffold was weakly built, he turned to the lieutenant of the Tower, and said, " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." He desired the spectators to pray for him, and to bear witness that he died in and for the holy Catholic...
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