 | 1842 - 488 pages
...putting the request conditionally ; and at last, by the queen's suggestion, added a postscript, that if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. However, the persecutors of Strafford apprehended that if his life were spared, he would eventually... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1845 - 472 pages
...were these — " But, if no less than his life can satisfy my people, I must say 'Jiat justitia.' " Postscript. — If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." By this strange postscript Charles indeed manifestly surrendered Strafford, and gave the lords cause... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...for good. She it was who added the Postscript to tfie King's Letter on Strafford's businesse, That if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. This being my Diana's Birth-day, I did- my endeavour to contrive for her some Amusement more than ordinary... | |
 | England - Great Britain - 1845 - 478 pages
...putting the request conditionally ; and at last, by the queen's suggestion, added a postscript, that if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. The persecutors of Strafford apprehended that if his life should be spared, he would eventually regain... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Great Britain - 1846 - 522 pages
...intentions to you, I rest Your unalterable and affectionate friend, CHARLES R. Whitehall, 10th May, 1641. If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 2 1 This letter was delivered to the House by the prince in person. 2 The following extract from the... | |
 | John Lingard - 1847 - 450 pages
...husband to send the letter, " which would have done as well," had she not persuaded him to add the postscript, " if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him " till Saturday ; " which, he observes, was a very unhandsome giving up of the whole message. Burnet's Own Times. 32. This is... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1848 - 860 pages
...intention to you, I rest, " Your unalterable and affectionate frieud, . , i ... .... " Снлвькз R. " Postscript. — If he must die. it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." . , ¿36 CIVIL. AND MILITARY TRANSACTIONS. 237 all the young princes, possibly be advised. Without... | |
 | Great Britain - 1848 - 456 pages
...consideration of my intentions to you, I rest, Your unalterable and affectionate friend, CHARLES R. If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.* A more unkingly letter never flowed from a monarch's pen. Its form and the infant bearer rendered it,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1850 - 750 pages
...prevailed on Charles to put that strange postscript to his letter to the lords, in behalf of Strafford, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday ; " by which he manifestly surrendered him up, and gave cause to suspeet his own sincerity. Doubts... | |
 | Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1850 - 216 pages
...never for good. She it was who added the Postscript to the King's Letter on Stratford's businesse, That if he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. This being my Diana's Birth-day, I did my endeavour to contrive for her some Amusement more than ordinary... | |
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If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. 
