 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803 - 498 pages
...indeed on his own account than to gratify his dependents, whose importunities he could not resist. Being impeached by the commons, the peers sentenced...forty thousand pounds, to be imprisoned in the tower, and to be for ever incapable of holding any office, place, or employment. Bacon, however, was soon... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...insidious blandishments of a court . Buckngliam escaped by this artifice; but lord Verulam was sentenced to pay a fine of forty thousand pounds; to be imprisoned in the Tower during the king's pleasure; to be for ever incapable of any office, place, or emolument, in the state; and never to sit again in... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...reed." Notwithstanding these abject and humiliating admissions, however, he was sentenced to pay a mulct of forty thousand pounds; to be imprisoned in the Tower during the King's pleasure ; to be for ever incapable of any office, place, or employment in the commonwealth ; and never to sit... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...reed." Notwithstanding these abject and humiliating admissions, however, he was sentenced to pay a mulct of forty thousand pounds; to be imprisoned in the Tower during the King's pleasure ; to be for ever incapable of any office, place, or employment in the commonwealth ; and never to sit... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 pages
...was, in 1621, accused before the House of Lords of bribery and corruption, and sentenced to undergo a fine of forty thousand pounds, to be imprisoned in the Tower during the king's pleasure, to be for ever incapable of holding any public office, and never to sit again in parliament, or come... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...articles, and throwing his cause entirely on the compassion of his judges. His sentence was, " to undergo a fine of forty thousand pounds ; to be " imprisoned in the Tower during the king's plea" sure ; to be for ever uncapable of any office, place, " or employment in the commonwealth ; and... | |
 | J. Frederick Lake Williams - 1822 - 250 pages
...king commanded him not to be present, he obeyed, and was undone. Finally, he was sentenced 'to undergo a fine of forty ' thousand pounds ; to be imprisoned in the Tower • daring the king's pleasure; to be for ever incapable 'of any office, place, or employment in the... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - 1824 - 568 pages
...motives of friendship alone. At this time the great seal was in the hands of Francis Bacon, lord Verulam, a man universally admired for the sublimity of his...him to pay a fine of forty thousand pounds, to be imprisoited in the Tower during the king's pleasure, and to be for-ever incapable of holding any office,... | |
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He acknowledged twenty-eight articles; and was sentenced to pay a fine of forty thousand pounds, to be imprisoned in the Tower during the king's pleasure, to be for ever incapable of any office, place, or employment, and never again to sit in Parliament,... 
