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" And on the whole, besides those who were butchered by the military commanders, two hundred and fifty-one are computed to have fallen by the hand of justice. The whole country was strewed with the heads and limbs of traitors. Every village almost beheld... "
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution - Page 194
by Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1818
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Report of the Trial and Acquittal of Edward Shippen, Esquire, Chief Justice ...

Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...heads and limbs of traitors. Erery village almost beheld the dead carcase of a wetclvzd-inhabitant. And all the rigours of justice, unabated by any appearance...were fully displayed to the people by the inhuman Jefteries. [ O. 3. ] yiume's History of England, vol. 4, page \ 69. The queen's menace, of trying and...
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Remarkable Passages in the Life of William Kiffin

William Kiffin - Anabaptists - 1823 - 206 pages
...traitors. Every village almost beheld the dead carcase of a wretched inhabitant. And all the rigors of justice, unabated by any appearance of clemency,...displayed to the people, by the inhuman Jefferies. He, on his return, was immediately, for those eminent services, created a peer; and was soon after...
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Hume and Smollett Abridged, and Continued to the Accession of George IV.

David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1824 - 568 pages
...by the military commanders, two hundred and fifty-one victims are said to have been executed ; ami all the rigours of justice, unabated by any appearance of clemency, were fully displayed by the barbarous Jefferies. In Scotland, the fate of Argyle had been decided before that of Monmouth....
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Hume and Smollett's Celebrated History of England, from Its First Settlement ...

David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1827 - 568 pages
...butchered by the military commanders, two hundred and fifty-one victims are said to have been executed ; and all the rigours of justice, unabated by any appearance of clemency, were fully displayed by the barbarous Jefferies. In Scotland, the fate of Argyle had been decided before that of Monmouth....
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Memorials of the Stuart Dynasty: Including the Constitutional and ...

Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1831 - 564 pages
...of his cruelty; two hundred and forty-three were there tried, of whom a great number were condemned and executed. He also opened his commission at Taunton...were fully displayed to the people by the inhuman Jeffries. " Of all the executions during this dismal period, the most remarkable were those of Mrs....
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Book of Martyrs, Or, a History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant ...

John Foxe - Church history - 1831 - 608 pages
...was strewed with the heads and limbs of traitors. Every village almost beheld the dead carcase of » wretched inhabitant. And all the rigours of justice,...were fully displayed to the people by the inhuman Jeffreys. Of all the executions during this dismal period, the most remarkable were those of Mrs. Gaunt,...
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Temple Bar: The City Golgotha : a Narrative of the Historical Occurrences of ...

Temple Bar (London), James Holbert Wilson - Conspiracies - 1853 - 92 pages
...country was strewed with the heads and limbs of traitors. Every village almost beheld the dead carcase of a wretched inhabitant. And all the rigours of justice,...displayed to the people by the inhuman Jefferies." — History of England, 8vo. vol. viii. p. 233. generous. The following anecdote, forming an agreeable...
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A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths, of the Primitive ...

John Foxe - Church history - 1853 - 538 pages
...fallen by the linnd of Iusece. The whole country was strewed with the heads and limlis of traltors. Every village, almost, beheld the dead carcass of a wretched Inhabitant. And all the rigours of lustice, unabated by any apprarauce of --.leniency, were fully displayed to the people by the Inhuman...
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 6

David Hume - Great Britain - 1856 - 583 pages
...traitors. Every village almost beheld the dead carcass of a wretched inhabitant. And all the rigors of justice, unabated by any appearance of clemency,...displayed to the people by the inhuman Jefferies. Anabaptist, noted for her beneficence, which she extended to persons of all professions and persuasions....
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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 6

David Hume - Great Britain - 1856 - 616 pages
...traitors. Every village almost beheld the dead carcass of a wretched inhabitant. And all the rigors of justice, unabated by any appearance of clemency,...displayed to the people by the inhuman Jefferies. Anabaptist, noted for her beneficence, which she extended to persons of all professions and persuasions....
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