 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...King demanded whether they had any power to treat, who answering that they had not, he replied, Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much. The commissioners, says Rushworth, attended His Majesty, and pressed him to agree to their propositions... | |
 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1827 - 642 pages
...treat? And being answered in the negative, made the same courteous reply that he did to them, " Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." When they were done reading, the king, who had hearkened attentively, said, " Gentlemen, 1 hope... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 706 pages
...nature of these proposals, and at the same time told that only ten-days were allowed him to consider of them, and that those who brought them had no power...to the treaty, the severity of which, he was told, wai not so much owing to their own hostility to him, as it was adopted for the purpose of subduing... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 374 pages
...peace; as to which, however, they had no authority to treat : on learning which Charles said, " Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." About this time the union between Cromwell and Ireton was rendered closer and more intimate,... | |
 | Charles I (King of England) - 1832 - 372 pages
...peace; as to which, however, they had no authority to treat : on learning which Charles said, " Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." About this time the union between Cromwell and Ireton was rendered closer and more intimate,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1854 - 494 pages
...him by asking whether they had power to treat. " No, Sire," was the answer. " Then," said Charles, " saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." Goodwin finished reading. " I am sure," said the King, " you cannot expect a present answer... | |
 | François Pierre G. Guizot - 1854 - 520 pages
...him by asking whether they had power to treat. " No, Sire," was the answer. " Then," said Charles, " saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." Goodwin finished reading. " I am sure," said the King, " you cannot expect a present answer... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1856 - 684 pages
...in presented tlte negativei made the same courteous reply that he did to to the king, them, " Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." When they were done reading, the king, who had hearkened attentively, said, "Gentlemen, I hope,... | |
 | Charles I (King of England) - Great Britain - 1861 - 366 pages
...peace; as to which, however, they had no authority to treat : on learning which Charles said, " Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." About this time the union between Cromwell K 4 and Ireton was rendered closer and more intimate,... | |
 | John Stoughton - England - 1867 - 562 pages
...blunt, petulant speeches which did him almost as much damage as his proverbial insincerity. " Then, saving the honour of the business, an honest trumpeter might have done as much." As the propositions were read, the King listened attentively, and at last observed : " Gentlemen,... | |
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... throwing himself into the hands of the Scots before Newark. He then removed with the Scotch army to Newcastle, where a commission of lords and commons was sent down to lay before him propositions for peace; as to which, however, they had no authority... 
