 that he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should be read twice a year against those who infringe it.  The Quarterly Review - Page 465edited by - 1832Full view - About this book
 | 1832 - 614 pages
...Rushworth has preserved for us — "That he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta, which should be read twice a-year against those who infringe it." Then followed rigorous imprisonment, — the exactions of loans... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...and remarkable reply.* ' " That he could be content to lend, as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta, which should...committed him to a close and rigorous imprisonment in the Gate- house. Being again brought before the Council, and persisting in his first refusal, he wag sent... | |
 | George Nugent Grenville Baron Nugent - 1832 - 452 pages
...remarkable reply*. — ' That he could be content ' to lend, as well as others, but feared to ' draw upon himself that curse in Magna ' Charta which should...property nearly the largest possessed by any commoner in England, committed him to a close and rigorous imprisonment in the Gate-house. Being again brought... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 pages
...and remarkable reply.. •' That he could be content to lend, as well as others, but feared to. draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should...against those who infringe it." The privy council, notbeing satisfied with his own recognizance to appear at the board, although answerable with a landed... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 530 pages
...his reasons. He answered, " that he could be content to " lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that " curse in Magna Charta, which should...read twice a year " against those who infringe it." For this noble answer, the Privy Council committed him close prisoner to the Gate House. After some... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1833 - 574 pages
...pointedly assigning his reason; " That he could be content to lend, as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should be read twice a year against those that infringe it." Upon this he was committed by the council to close custody in the Gatehouse prison... | |
 | 1836 - 506 pages
...to the king's necessities, that " he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta, which should...read twice a year against those who infringe it." In the new Parliament which met in March, 1628, Hampden again sat for Wendover, and having become more... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...conduct, he boldly replied, " that he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna charta . which should be read twice a year against those who infringe it."1 The privy council hereupon committed him to a close and rigorous imprisonment for a time in the... | |
 | 1837 - 272 pages
...to the king's necessities, that " he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta, which should...read twice a year against those who infringe it." In the new Parliament which met in March, 1628, Hampden again sat for Wendover, and having become more... | |
 | 1837 - 430 pages
...these memorable words : — " That he could be content to lend, as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in magna charta which should be read twice a year against those who infringe it."1 The privy council, not being ; ' Kushwortb, vol. ip 428., &c. satisfied with his own recognizance... | |
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