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" If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday. "
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the ... - Page 55
by Gilbert Burnet - 1823
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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to ...

Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 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. II. THE CRISIS OF 1642 The following petition to parliament, known as the " Root and Branch Petition,"...
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Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence ..., Volume 1

George Borrow, Edward Hale Bierstadt - Crime - 1928 - 542 pages
...of Commons, and endeavour to bring them into the same sentiments, adding by way of postscript, "That if he must die it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." But so little influence had these prayers and entreaties, that the Lords let his Majesty know that...
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The Adventures of Oliver Twist And a Child's History of England

Charles Dickens - Fiction - 2005 - 657 pages
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, "If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 18

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1878 - 1766 pages
...fatal words, 'If no lees than his life can satisfy my people. I must say, Fiat jiistitia,' and tht postscript, ' If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' Such were the words with which Charles sealed the fate of his great minister. We cannot wonder at the...
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The Leisure Hour, Volume 5

Great Britain - 1856 - 844 pages
...Straflbrd's life might be spared, " if it might be done without the discontent of his people ;" adding in a postscript, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." Neither request was complied with ; and the king said, " What I intended by my letter was with an if...
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A Child's History of England

Charles Dickens - Great Britain - 1924 - 482 pages
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment.' In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, 'If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very...
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A Child's History of England ~ Paperbound

502 pages
...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very...
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