 | Trials - 1816 - 758 pages
...counsellors did the same thing. Then the queen desired the king to hide her tace with his head and periwig, which he did, for she said she could not be brought...the council stood close at the bed's feet, and lord chanrellor upon the step. " 12. As soon as the child was born, the midwife cut the navel-string, because... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 408 pages
...upon which the rest ' of the privy counsellers did the same thing. Then the ' queen desired the king to hide ' her face with his head and pe' riwig, which...Appendix to Dalrymple's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 308.) b This, the ladies say, is foolish. S. ("Thewarmingpanisno " feasible project, unless you " break the... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 424 pages
..." the same thing. Then the " queen desired the king to " hide her face with his head " and periwig, which he did ; " for she said she could not be " brought...Appendix to Dalrymple's Memoirs, vol. II. p. 308.) f This, the ladies say, is foolish. S. (" The warming" pan is no feasible project, " unless you break... | |
 | Walter Scott - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1833 - 494 pages
...Councillors did the same thing. The Queen desired the King to hide her face with his head and periwig; which he did ; for she said she could not be brought...the bed's feet, and Lord Chancellor upon the step. Q. 12. How long was the King talking to the Privy Councillors, after the child was carried to the next... | |
 | Walter Scott - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1833 - 552 pages
...Councillors did the same thing. The Queen desired the King to hide her face with his head and periwig ; which he did ; for she said she could not be brought...the bed's feet, and Lord Chancellor upon the step. Q. 12. How long was the King talking to the Privy Councillors, after the child was carried to the next... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 630 pages
...there. She then begged her consort to cover her face with his head and periwig ; for she declared " she could not be brought to bed, and have so many men look on her." However, the fright may have shortened her sufferings ; for James III., or " the Old Pretender," very... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1852 - 334 pages
...upon the step. She begged her consort to hide her face with his head and periwig, for she declared, "she could not be brought to bed and have so many men look on her."3 However, the affair then took place, the child was taken into an adjoining chamber, followed... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Contempt of court - 1856 - 864 pages
...there*. She then begged her consort to cover her face with his head and periwig ; for she declared " she could not be brought to bed, and have so many men look on her." However, the fright may have shortened her sufferings ; for James III., or " the old pretender," very... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 332 pages
...ladies-in-waiting and of course James himself, whom she desired to conceal her face under the curls of his periwig. 'For she said she could not be brought to bed and have so many men look on her.' By ten o'clock she had given birth to a fine boy, to be christened James Francis Edward, and so delighted... | |
 | Maureen Waller - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 504 pages
...of giving birth that Mary Beatrice begged her husband 'to hide her face with his head and periwig, which he did; for she said she could not be brought...many men look on her; for all the Council stood close to the bed's feet and Lord Chancellor up on the step.' The Queen's groans were further testimony to... | |
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King to hide her face with his head and periwig, which he did, for she said she could not be brought to bed and have so many men look on her; for all the council stood close at the bed's feet, and Lord Chancellor upon the step. 