William Penn: An Historical Biography. With an Extra Chapter on 'The Macaykat Cgarges'Chapman and Hall, 1851 - 457 pages |
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Page 114 - Ancient and just Liberties asserted, i. 18. your own judgments and opinions rather than the good advice which was given you. God keep my life out of your hands! But for this the court fines you forty marks a man and imprisonment in Newgate till the fines be paid. 3 Penn : Being freed
Page 101 - I am arraigned a prisoner. My liberty, which is next to life itself, is now concerned. You are many against me; and it is hard if I must not make the best of my case. I say again, unless you shew me and the people the law you ground your indictment upon, I
Page 445 - a broker in simony of a peculiarly discreditable kind." 6 These allegations I shall examine in the order in which they occur. I. I quote Mr. Macaulay's own words. " He was soon surrounded by flatterers and suppliants. His house at Kensington was sometimes thronged at his hour of rising by more than two hundred suitors. He
Page 101 - indictment, but whether this indictment be legal. It is too general and imperfect an answer to say it is common law, unless we know both where and what it is: for where there is no law, there is
Page 83 - in the comedy of the Sullen Lovers. "Lord! to see how this play of Sir Positive AtAll, in abuse of Sir Robert Howard, do take! All the duke's, and every body's talk being of that, and telling more stories of him of the like nature, that it is now the town and country talk.
Page 114 - Clerk: Gentlemen, are you agreed in your verdict ? Jury: Yes. Clerk: Who shall speak for you ? Jury: Our foreman. Clerk: Look upon the prisoners. What say you, is William Penn guilty of the matter whereof he stands indicted in manner and form, or not guilty ? Foreman: You have our verdict in writing. Clerk: I will read it— Recorder: No. It is
Page 100 - Penn: Shall I plead to an indictment that has no foundation in law ? If it contain that law you say I have broken, why should you decline to produce it, since it will be impossible for the jury to determine, or agree to bring in their verdict, who have not the law produced by which they should measure the truth of the indictment.
Page 202 - to him and his belief. That which gives me a more than ordinary right to speak at this time, and in this place, is the great abuse which I have received above any other of my profession ; for of a long time I have not only been supposed a Papist, but a
Page 99 - man is bound to accuse himself. And why dost thou offer to ensnare me with such a question ? Is this like unto a judge, that ought to be counsel for the prisoner at the bar ? Recorder: Hold your tongue,
Page 99 - Recorder: What say you, Mr. Mead, were you there ? Mead: It is a maxim in your own law—Nemo tenetur accusare seipsum—which, if it be not true Latin, I am sure it is true English—No man is bound to accuse himself. And why dost thou offer to ensnare me with such a question