| Oliver Goldsmith - 1777 - 374 trang
...his crime and accufe his miftrefs; but he rejected the propolal with contempt, and died profcffing her innocence, .and his own. The queen and her brother...peers ; but upon what proof or pretence the crime of .inceft was urged againft them is unknown; the chief evidence, it is laid, amounted to no more, than... | |
| David Hume - 1789 - 430 trang
...nothing , and he would rather die a thoufand deaths than calumniate an innocent perfon. Her triil, THE queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers, confiding of the duke of Suffolk , the marquis of Exeter, the earl of Arundcl , and twenty -three more:... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1797 - 414 trang
...his crime and accufe his miftrefs ; but he rejected the propofal with contempt, and died profeffing her innocence, and his own. The queen and her brother...peers; 'but upon what proof or pretence the crime of inceft was urged againft them is unknown ; the chief evidence, it is .faid, amounted to no more than... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 498 trang
...generously rejected the proposal ; and said, that in his conscience he believed her entirely guiltless. The queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers; the chief evidence amounted to no more than that Rocheford had been seen to lean on her bed, before... | |
| Mary Hays - 1803 - 414 trang
...her of nothing ; and that rather than calumniate an innocent person, he would die a thousand deaths. The queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers ; their uncle, the duke of Norfolk, presiding as lord high-steward. The evidence of incest amounted... | |
| Mary Hays - 1803 - 414 trang
...her of nothing ; and that rather than calumniate an innocent person, he would die a thousand deaths. The queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers \ their uncle, the duke of Norfolk, presiding as lord high-steward. The evidence of incest amounted... | |
| 1808 - 388 trang
...impatience of the King, they were considered as certain evidences of more serious and substantial guilt. The Queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers j — her uncle, the pliant and ambitious Norfolk, presiding as high steward. The evidence of the horrible... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1808 - 342 trang
...served to acquit her of the charge. Norris, who had been much in the king's favour, had an offer of his life, if he would confess his crime, and accuse his...contempt; and died professing her innocence and his own. '^'le °iueen and -her brother were tried by a jury of peers; but upon what proof or pretence the crime... | |
| 1808 - 540 trang
...impatience of the King, they were considered as certain evidences of more serious and substantial guilt. The Queen and her brother were tried by a jury of peers ; — her uncle, the pliant and ambitious Norfolk, presiding as high steward. The evidence of the horrible... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 332 trang
...her of the charge. Norris, \rho had been much in the king's favour, had an offer of his life, if lie would confess his crime, and accuse his mistress ;...contempt, and died professing her innocence, and his own. In the mean time, the queen, who saw the terrible appearance of her fortunes, endeavoured to soften... | |
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