 did maintain me, and I said no. Then they did put me on the rack because I confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time ; and because I lay still, and did not cry, my Lord Chancellor and Master Eich took pains...  The Chronicles of Newgate - Sivu 75tekijä(t) Arthur Griffiths - 1884 - 596 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 584 sivua
...dreadful truth related at first hand, from the pen of the sufferer w * A servatives CH. 13. herself), ' they did put me on the rack because I ~ confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my And Anne J ' / * *1 June, opinion, and thereupon they kept me a lonsr Ascue is time; and because 1... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 sivua
...lord-chancellor in the infliction of torture upon her. As this has been questioned, we subjoin her own words : " Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies or gentlewomen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time, and because I lay still, and... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 610 sivua
...lord-chancellor in the infliction of torture upon her. As this has been questioned, we subjoin her own words : " Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies or gentlewomen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time, and because I lay still, and... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1859 - 382 sivua
...practised in an English prison occurred, of which an account is given by the sufferer, Anne Ascue: “They did put me on the rack because I confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my opinion, and thereupon they kept me a long time. And because I lay still and did not cry, the Lord Chancellor and... | |
 | 1860 - 360 sivua
...water thus supplied to his poor, persecuted child, has received a full reward. She proceeds :— " Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed...lay still, and did not cry, my Lord Chancellor and Mr. Eich took pains to rack me with their own hands till I was nigh dead." It was but too true. Provoked... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1860 - 398 sivua
...account of her examination, and other things connected with her imprisonment, she says: " Then did they put me on the rack because I confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my opinion, [meaning she did not betray to them those whom she knew to be Christians,] and thereon they kept me... | |
 | 1866 - 850 sivua
...horrid state. But, the fact is clear. She affirms it in words which cannot well be misunderstood. " Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies or gentlewomen to be of my opinion; and thereon they kept me a long time." For the Chancellor and Rich... | |
 | John Foxe - 1872 - 760 sivua
...case to the apprentices, and they by her did send me ™ money, but who they were I never knew. *ffi " Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no * ladies or gentlewomen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept ™ me a long time; and because I lay still... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1875 - 518 sivua
...lying tradition, but a dreadful truth related at first hand, from the pen of the sufferer herself), " they did put me on the rack because I confessed no ladies or gentlemen to be of my opinion, and thereupon they kept me a long time ; and because I lay still and did not cry, my Lord Chancellor and... | |
 | Emily Owen - 1877 - 482 sivua
...already abandoned the principles of justice, worked the rack themselves. " Then," she writes, " did they put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies...Lord Chancellor and Master Eich took pains to rack me in their own hands, till I was nigh dead." Is it possible to conceive a more affecting picture than... | |
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