 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 510 pages
...they should be fitted with an hempen cord." " The letter," said Cromwell to Lord Orrery, " was sewn up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer of it was to come with the saddle upon his head, about ten of the clock that night, to the Blue Boar Inn,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 536 pages
...was decreed ; that he could not possibly tell what it was, but that we might find it out, if we could intercept a letter sent from the king to the queen, wherein he declared what he would do. The letter, he said, was sewed up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer... | |
 | David Hume - 1882 - 594 pages
...one of our spies, who was of the king's bedchamber, acquainting us, that our final doom was decreed that very day ; that he could not possibly learn what it was, but we might discovei it, if we could but intercept a letter sent from the king to the queen, wherein he informed... | |
 | 1850 - 346 pages
...doom was decreed; that he could not possibly tell what it was, but we might find it out, if we could intercept a letter, sent from the king to the queen, wherein he declared what he would do. The letter, he aaid, was sewed up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer... | |
 | Titbits - 1884 - 376 pages
...intercepting a letter sent from the King to the Queen (Henrietta Maria). The letter, he said, was sewed up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer of it would come, with the saddle on his head, that night to the Blue Boar Inn, in Holborn, to take horse from there to Dover. Cromwell... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 594 pages
...doom was decreed ; that he could not possibly tell what it was, but we might find it out, if we could intercept a letter, sent from the king to the queen, wherein he declared what he would do. The letter, he said, was sewed up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 752 pages
...doom was decreed ; that he could not possibly tell what it was, but we might find it out if we could intercept a letter sent from the King to the Queen, wherein he declared what he would do.2 The letter, he said, was sewed up in the his Short View of the late Troubles... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1893 - 450 pages
...doom was decreed ; that he could not possibly tell what it was, but we might find it out if we could intercept a letter sent from the King to the Queen, wherein he declared what he would do.2 intended to restore the King, ' but that after he was brought to Hampton... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 376 pages
...doom was decreed ; that he could not possibly tell what it was, but we might find it out if we could intercept a letter sent from the king to the queen, wherein he declared what he would do. The letter, he said, was sewn up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 394 pages
...garter, they should be fitted with an hempen cord." "The letter," said Cromwell to Lord Orrery, "was sewn up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer of it was to come with the saddle upon his head, about ten of the clock that night, to the Blue Boar Inn,... | |
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... up in the skirt of a saddle, and the bearer of it would come with the saddle upon his head, about ten of the clock that night, to the Blue Boar in Holborn, where he was to take horse for Dover. The messenger knew nothing of the letter in the saddle,... 
