The Harleian Miscellany
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ISBN13: 9780217082679
Paperback|9780217082679
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ARRAIGNMENT AND EXECUTION or THE LATE TRAITORS, WITH A RELATION OF THE OTHER TRAITORS, rcere executed at Worcetter, the twenty-seventh of January last past. London: Printed for Jeffrey Chorlton, and are to be sold at his shop, at the great north door of St. Paul's. lOoti. Octavo, containing twenty-eight pages. The following tract contains a short narrative of the behaviour of these men at the gallows, who were executed for the gun-powder plot, of which I know not whether there is any other Protestant relation, and therefore have preserved this, though not very valuable either for its elegance or decency, for it is writ' ten in a strain of merriment and insult, which the religion, professed by the Author, does not teach. However, as one extreme is naturally opposed to another, this pamphlet, in which the cause and sufi'erings of these wretches are treated with scoffs and derision, may be justly placed in coutrast against those writings of their own t-liurili in Which they are reverenced as martyrs. J. . A brief Discourse upon the Arraignment and Execution of the eight Traitort, Digby, the tioo Wmtert, Grant, Rockaood, Keyet, Bates, and Johnson, alias Fawkes, four of which were executed in St. Paul's Church-yard, in London, upon Thursday, being the thirtieth of January; the other four in the old Palace in Westminster, over-agaitut the Parliament-house, upon Friday next following. NOT to aggravate the sorrow of the living in the shame of tbe dead, but to dissuade the idolatrously blinded, from seeking their own destruction in the way to damnation, I have here briefly got down a discourse of the behaviour and carriage of the eight persons before- named, from the time of their imprisonment, to the instant of their death; the nature of their offence, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217082679 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021708267X |
| Weight | 1.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.30 In |
| List Price | $35.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 586 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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