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" I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself. "
An Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea and Its Environs ... - Page 282
by Thomas Faulkner - 1810 - 459 pages
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...Observing that 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...
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Lives of British Statesmen, Volume 1

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...
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The Life of Sir Thomas More

William Roper - Christian saints - 1822 - 262 pages
...which was so weak that it was ready to fall, he said merrily to the Lieutenant, " I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself." Then desired he all the people thereabout to pray for him, and to bear wituess with him, that he should...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 14

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...
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Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar ..., Volume 1

Law - 1825 - 320 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 down let me shift for myself.' Then desired he all the people thereabout to pray for him, and to bear witness with him, that he should...
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English stories

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...
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A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical ..., Volume 4

John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 622 pages
...Observing that 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...
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A New Universal Biography: Forming the first volume of series III

John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 632 pages
...Observing that 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...
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Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth, Volume 2

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1826 - 678 pages
...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...
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The historical antiquities of Hertfordshire, Volume 2

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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