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Página 241 - That if any rebellion shall be excited in the kingdom, or any thing attempted to the hurt of Her Majesty's person, by or for any person pretending a title to the crown, the Queen shall empower twenty-four persons, by a commission under the great seal, to examine into, and pass sentence upon such offences; and...
Página 401 - Into thy hands I commend my spirit ; for thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, thou GOD of truth.
Página 283 - ... and yet so perilous to be revealed, in respect of all the actors of that tragedy, that no man, without extreme danger, could utter any speech thereof, because they did see it and could not amend it: and therefore I will impute unto you neither foreknowledge nor concealing, and desire that you will advise by my secretary what may be most agreeable to my honour and your surety in trial, and it shall be performed.
Página 385 - Religion, and the public good and prosperity of your country, that reason and policy commandeth ; especially, having so good a warrant and ground for the satisfaction of your consciences towards God, and the discharge of your credit and reputation towards the world, as the oath of " Association, " which you both have so solemnly taken and vowed...
Página 354 - I do not, indeed, deny that I have longed for liberty, and earnestly laboured to procure it. Nature impelled me to do so ; but, I call God to witness that I have never conspired the death of the Queen of England.
Página 385 - ... blood as the said queen is. " These respects, we find, do greatly trouble her majesty, who, we assure you, has sundry times protested, that if the regard of the danger of her good subjects and faithful servants did not more move her than her own peril, she would never be drawn to assent to the shedding her blood.
Página 366 - On the 18th, after much debate, both houses unanimously answered, " that they could find no other way ; " and this brief but stern decision was forthwith carried by the lord chancellor and the speaker of the house of commons to the queen, who was then at Richmond. This communication, it was expected, would elicit something direct and definite from Elizabeth ; but the answer which she gave was one of studied ambiguity.
Página 315 - of low stature, slender every way, dark, yellow-haired on the head, and clear yellow-bearded, pitted in the face with small-pocks, short-sighted, and, as it appeared, about thirty years of age." We have here a minute portrait of an acute, unscrupulous, and degraded man ; whose talents, as a spy and decipherer, were so successfully employed by Walsingham in the detection and destruction of the Scottish Queen.
Página 324 - Now, for that there can be no certain day appointed of the accomplishing of the said gentlemen's designment, to the end that others may be in readiness to take me from hence: I would that the said gentlemen had always about them, or at...
Página 386 - My good livings and life are at her Majesty's disposition and I am ready to lose them this next morrow, if it shall so please her, acknowledging that I hold them as of her most gracious favour, and do not desire them to enjoy them, but with her Highness's good liking.