 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...of her death, that the lieutenant of the tower said, "1 have seen many men and women executed, and they have been in great sorrow; and to my knowledge, this lady hath much pleasure in death." When she was brought to the place of execution, she expressed herself... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1816 - 786 pages
...thought to be dead by this time, and past my pain. I told her, it »hould be no pain, it was so sottle. And then she said, I heard say the executioner was...executed ; and that they have been in great sorrow, and lo my knowledge this lady has much joy and pleasure in death. Sir, her almoner is coninuallv with her,... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 790 pages
...laughing heartily. I have seen many men, nnd also women, executed ; and that they have been in gre-.u sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy and pleasure in dcaih. Sir, her almoner is con:inuaily with her, and had been since two a clock after midnight. This... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Reformation - 1829 - 788 pages
...to be dead by this " time, and past my pain. I told her, it should be ". no pain, it was so settle. And then she said, I " heard say the executioner was..." great sorrow ; and to my knowledge this lady has BOOK " much joy and pleasure in death. Sir, her almoner III . " is continually with her, and had been... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 294 pages
...neck,' (and put her hand about it) laughing heartily. I have seen many men and women executed, and they have been in great sorrow ; and, to my knowledge, this lady hath much joy and pleasure in death." Her expressions, as recited in this letter, for we have never... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 566 pages
...contented, and the fatal order came. All doubt and fear were now at an end. " I have seen," says Kingston, " many men and also women executed, and that they have been in great sorrow; to my knowledge this lady hath more joy and pleasure in death." She reviewed her past life, and it... | |
 | Henry Mead - Literary curiosa - 1846 - 254 pages
...neck ;" and put her hand about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and women executed, and they have been in great sorrow ; and, to my knowledge, this lady hath much joy and pleasure in death. May 19, 1536. " " "The nineteenth of May being come," says Lord... | |
 | Boleyn Anne (consort of Henry viii, king of England.) - 1854 - 226 pages
...and put her hands about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men, and also women, executed, and they have been in great sorrow ; and to my knowledge this lady has much joy and pleasure in death." And thus — in the trials of Anne and her brother — was the majesty of the law vindicated; thus... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1855 - 494 pages
...Kingston this remark, in his letter to Cromwell — " I have seen many men and women executed, and they have been in great sorrow ; and to my knowledge, this lady hath much joy and pleasure in her death." She did not, however, fulfill his expectation of professing... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 560 pages
...neck,' and put her hand about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men and also women executed, and they have been in great sorrow ; and to my knowledge this lady hath much joy and pleasure in death." The Portuguese sojourner in London has left the most detailed... | |
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heard say the executioner was very good, and I " have a little neck ; and put her hands about it, " laughing heartily. I have seen many men, and " also women, executed, and that they have been in " great sorrow ; and to my knowledge this lady has BOOK... 
