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Sunday, December 2, 2007

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell: "conviction of Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury for high treason CHAP and of his gallant behaviour on the scaffold The two Chief x Justices Pemberton and North presided at the Old Bailey A 1681_ both devoted tools of the government The former charged Of indict the Grand Jury and instead of telling them that though etdpre the proceeding was ex parte and not conclusive a case must be made out against the prisoner which if not answered would be sufficient to convict him of high treason said That which is referred to you is to consider whether upon the evidence given to you there be any reason or ground for the King to call this person to an account You are not to judge the person"
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell: "Proceed The 24th of November was the critical day and when it ofd Bailed dawned there seemed a strong probability to many that the when bill STATE TRIALS would be ornamented with an account of the Although Dryden has the merit of the ingenious parallel between Jewish and Knglish h istory he was not the first to fix this name on Shaftesbury On the 9th of July 1681 exactly a week after his arrest came out a doggerel poem against him entitled The Badger in the Fox trap containing these lines Besides my titles are as numerous As all my actions various still and bumorous Some call me Tory some ACHITOPHKL Some Jai k-a Dandy some old Machiavel Some call me devil some his foste"
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell: "on which he was committed and against several of witnesses for a conspiracy to convict him by perjury but Pemberton and the other Judges who wished to please the King would not suffer the indictment to be submitted to a grand jury In the mean time every exertion was made to poison the Pamphlets public mind and to prejudice against the accused those who t e were to decide upon his fate Innumerable pamphlets issued hun from the press denouncing him as the great agitator without whose baleful presence all resistance to sound principles in church and state would be at an end The pulpits rang with the dangers to true religion from the nonconformists and he was reviled by name as"
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell: "he replied with a smile I thank you sir but I have nothing to fear they have much therefore pray God to deliver them from me A few days after one of the Popish Lords whom he had been instrumental in sending to the Tower affecting great surprise to find him among them he coolly answered that he had been lately indisposed with an ague and was come to take some Jesuits powder f It seems certain however that while in the Tower he offered to expatriate himself and to spend the remainder of his days in Carolina a colony which he had assisted to settle and where he had propertyJ but the King declared he should be tried by his Peers The difficulty of the government was "
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ... By John Campbell Campbell: "overt act of treason in some county where there was a CHAP manageable grand jury but they had not been properly drilled upon this point and they represented all the treason An 168 able consults to have taken place in Thanet House in the city of London By a London grand jury alone therefore could the bill of indictment be found and London was still in the power of the old liberal corporation The grand jury was to be summoned by the Sheriffs and the Sheriffs were Whigs There were Old Bailey Sessions held on the 7th of July at which regularly the indictment ought to have been preferred but the Attorney General waited in the hope of better Sheriffs Shute and Pilkington the next"
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Hudibras: A Poem By Samuel Butler

Hudibras: A Poem By Samuel Butler: "And hither came t observe and smoke What courses other riskers took And to the utmost do his best To save himself and hang the rest 420 To match this Saint there was another As busy and perverse a Brother An haberdasher of small wares In politics and state affairs More Jew than Rabbi Achitophel 425 And better gifted to rebel For when h had taught his tribe to spouse The Cause aloft upon one house He scorn d to set his own in order But d "
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