 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...the scaffold was weakly built, he turned to the lieutenant of the Tower and said, " I pray you, Mr. lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." He desired the spectators to pray for him, and to bear witness that he died in and for the holy catholic... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...him too weak, and ready to fall, he said merrily to the lieutenant of the Tower, " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." After his prayers were ended, he turned to the executioner, and said with a cheerful countenance, "... | |
 | John Macdiarmid - 1820 - 412 pages
...scaffold was weakly erected, he said, in his usual tone, to the attending officer, " I pray thee, friend, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Observing the executioner pale and trembling, he said to him, " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...Mccndcd the scalFold, which seemed so weak that it was ready to fall -, whereupon, " I pray (said he) sec me- safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." His prayers being ended, be turned to the executioner, and with a cheerful countenance said, " Pluck... | |
 | Law - 1825 - 318 pages
...scaffold, which was so weak it was ready to fall, he said merrily to the Lieutenant, ' I pray yon, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming...the people thereabout to pray for him, and to bear witness with him, that he should now there suffer death in and for the faith of the Holy Catholic Church.... | |
 | Maria Hack - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...scaffold was weakly erected, he said, in his usual tone, to the attending officer, " I pray thee, friend, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Observing the executioner pale and trembling, he said to him: " Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1826 - 650 pages
...the scaffold, •which was unstable, More, whose jocular vein did not desert him, said to Kingston, " I pray you, master lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." When on the scaffold, he called all present to bear witness that he suffered for the faith of the catholic... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 622 pages
...the scaffold was weakly built, he turned to the lieutenant of the Tower, and said, " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." He desired the spectators to pray for him, and to bear witness that he died in and for the holy Catholic... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 632 pages
...the scaffold was weakly built, he turned to the lieutenant of the Tower, and said, " I pray you, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." He desired the spectators to pray for him, and to bear witness that he died in and for the holy Catholic... | |
 | sir Henry Chauncy - Hertfordshire (England) - 1826 - 692 pages
...Scaflbld which seem'd so weak that 'twas ready to fall, lie said merrily to the Lieutenant, I pray, Sir, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself; The Sheriff interrupting him when he would have spoke to the People, he desired their Prayers and that... | |
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I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself. 
