Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: To 1586Henry Ellis Harding, Triphook, & Lepard, 1824 - Great Britain |
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Page 259 - I suppose we have gotten so much as at this time is likely to be had, yet to-morrow do we intend to bring a couple of them to the rack, not in any hope to get anything worthy that pain and fear, but because it is so earnestly commanded to us.