 | Andrew Knapp (Attorney at law), William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - 1825 - 512 pages
...suffer where his ancestor, the Earl of Essex, had suffered ; and was in greater hopes of obtaining that favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of...his majesty ; and that he thought it was hard that ho must die at the place appointed for the execution of com. mon felons.' Mr. Humphries took occasion... | |
 | 1836 - 456 pages
...suffer where his ancestor, the Earl of Essex, had suffered ; and was in great hopes of obtaining that favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of...at the place appointed for the execution of common felons.f After execution, the body was conveyed to Surgeons' Hall, to undergo the remainder of the... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1849 - 540 pages
...suffer where his ancestor the Earl of Essex had suffered, and was in greater hopes of obtaining that favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of...place appointed for the execution of common felons." As he proceeded onwards, the guilty man observing the great concourse of people, asked the sheriff... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 584 pages
...suffer where his ancestor the Earl of Essex had suffered, and was in great hopes of obtaining that favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of...place appointed for the execution of common felons. The chaplain of the Tower talked to the Earl on religion, but he received it impatiently; and all he... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1877 - 338 pages
...Essex, had suffered — namely, on Tower Hill ; that ' he had been in the greater hope of obtaining this favour as he had the honour of quartering part of...being allied to his Majesty ; and that he thought it hard that he should have to die at the place appointed for the execution of common felons.' As to his... | |
 | Donald Nicoll - 1878 - 432 pages
...had suffered — namely, on Tower Hill; that c he had been in^the^grearfccst hope of obtaining this favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of...being allied to his majesty; and that he thought it hard that he should have to die at the place appointed for the execution of common felons.5 As to his... | |
 | Lady Constance Charlotte Elisa Lennox Russell - 1905 - 530 pages
...beg that he might suffer where his ancestor the Earl of Essex had suffered, and hoped to obtain that favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of the same arms and of being allied to his Majesty.2 All the concession granted was, ' in consequence of his rank,' a few days' extension, and... | |
 | Lady Russell - 1905 - 518 pages
...beg that he might suffer where his ancestor the Earl of Essex had suffered, and hoped to obtain that favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of the same arms and of being allied to his Majesty.2 All the concession granted was, ' in consequence of his rank,' a few days' extension, and... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1907 - 428 pages
...at Tyburn. " I think it hard," he exclaimed, on learning that his request had been refused, " that I must die at the place appointed for the execution of common felons " : but it would have been harder if the place where so many of the brave and the true had suffered had been... | |
 | John L. Rayner, G. T. Crook - 1926 - 374 pages
...ancestor, the Earl of Essex, had been executed, and that he had had greater hopes of obtaining that favour as he had the honour of quartering part of the same arms, and of being allied to his Majesty ; but that he had refused, and he thought it hard that he must die at the place appointed for the execution... | |
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Essex had suffered, and was in greater hopes of obtaining that favour, as he had the honour of quartering part of the same arms, and of being allied to his Majesty ; and that he thought it was hard that he must die at the place appointed for the execution... 
