...England by his tongue during those ten years, and sometimes by pamphlets in exile, Brown, who could boast that he had been " committed to thirty-two prisons,...some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day," and who escaped the gallows only through some family connexion he had with the all-powerful Lord Burleigh,...

...of the Church party. Brown himself declared on his deathbed that he had been in thirty-two different prisons ; in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. He ended his days in Northampton jail in the year 1630, aged 80 years. It is alleged, however, that the...

...imprisoned, and some hanged. Brown himself declared on his death-bed that he had been in thirtytwo different prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. They were so much persecuted, that they resolved at last to quit the country. Accordingly, many retired...

...comes from " lying in thirty-two prisons," here and there, as he went testifying through England, " in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday " ; and " narrowly escaping the gallows." It needed such a man to lead the forlorn hope and save for...

...comes from " lying in thirty-two prisons," here and there, as he went testifying through England, " in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday "; and " narrowly escaping the gallows." It needed such a man to lead the forlorn hope and save for...

...bosom. He is said to have been a persecuted man, of violent passions. He died in Northampton jail in 1630, after boasting that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not sec his hand at noonday. JC ROGERS. Mr. Hall will find full particulars concerning the " Brownists...

...ending usually with his liberation by Elizabeth's powerful minister. To this period his boast applies that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not, as he said, see his hand at noon-day. His assistant, Richard Harrison, who, though " a petty pedagogue,"...

...he found ready listeners. After a long struggle, in the course of which, as he afterwards boasted, he had " been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday,"2 he withdrew with some followers to Middleburg, in Zealand, where they established a congregation....

...feather-bed in a cart. There, not long after, he sickened and died, in 1630, aged upwards of eighty years, boasting " that he had been committed to thirtytwo...prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon day." There is a considerable amount of mystery connected with this eventful life. A bold and...

...constantly arrested and thrown into prison. He boasted that he had seen the inside of no less than thirty-two prisons, " in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day." He was again and again delivered by the influence of Lord Burleigh, while some of his unfortunate followers...