ISBN: 9781153739870

Excerpt: ...Lord Stanhope, describing this Act, states that there was ever ready a band of degraded and outcast clergymen, prisoners for debt or for crime, who hovered about the verge of … mais…

Excerpt: ...Lord Stanhope, describing this Act, states that there was ever ready a band of degraded and outcast clergymen, prisoners for debt or for crime, who hovered about the verge of the Fleet prison soliciting customers, and plying, like porters, for employment.... One of these wretches, named Keith, had gained a kind of pre-eminence in infamy. On being told there was a scheme on foot to stop his lucrative traffic, he declared, with many oaths, he would still be revenged of the Bishops, that he would buy a piece of ground and outbury them! (History of England, c. 31). The match for Lord Granville, which I announced to you, is not concluded: the flames are cooled in that quarter as well as in others. I begin a new sheet to you, which does not match with the other, for I have no more of the same paper here. Dr. Cameron is executed, and died with the greatest firmness. His parting with his wife the night before was heroic and tender: he let her stay till the last moment, when being aware that the gates of the Tower would be locked, he told her so; she fell at his feet in agonies: he said, Madam, this was not what you promised me, and embracing her, forced her to retire: then with the same coolness looked at the window till her coach was out of sight, after which he turned about and wept. His only concern seemed to be at the ignominy of Tyburn: he was not disturbed at the dresser for his body, or at the fire to burn his bowels.1 The crowd was so great, that a friend who attended him could not get away, but was forced to stay and behold the execution; but what will you say to the minister or priest that accompanied him? The wretch, after taking leave, went into a landau, where, not content with seeing the Doctor hanged, he let down the top of the landau for the better convenience of seeing him embowelled! I cannot tell you positively that what I hinted of this Cameron being commissioned from Prussia was true, but so it is believed. Adieu! my dear child; I... Horace Walpole, Books, History, Letters Of Horace Walpole - Volume Ii Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography<

ISBN: 9781153739870

Excerpt: ...Lord Stanhope, describing this Act, states that there was ever ready a band of degraded and outcast clergymen, prisoners for debt or for crime, who hovered about the verge of … mais…

Excerpt: ...Lord Stanhope, describing this Act, states that there was ever ready a band of degraded and outcast clergymen, prisoners for debt or for crime, who hovered about the verge of the Fleet prison soliciting customers, and plying, like porters, for employment.... One of these wretches, named Keith, had gained a kind of pre-eminence in infamy. On being told there was a scheme on foot to stop his lucrative traffic, he declared, with many oaths, he would still be revenged of the Bishops, that he would buy a piece of ground and outbury them! (History of England, c. 31). The match for Lord Granville, which I announced to you, is not concluded: the flames are cooled in that quarter as well as in others. I begin a new sheet to you, which does not match with the other, for I have no more of the same paper here. Dr. Cameron is executed, and died with the greatest firmness. His parting with his wife the night before was heroic and tender: he let her stay till the last moment, when being aware that the gates of the Tower would be locked, he told her so; she fell at his feet in agonies: he said, Madam, this was not what you promised me, and embracing her, forced her to retire: then with the same coolness looked at the window till her coach was out of sight, after which he turned about and wept. His only concern seemed to be at the ignominy of Tyburn: he was not disturbed at the dresser for his body, or at the fire to burn his bowels.1 The crowd was so great, that a friend who attended him could not get away, but was forced to stay and behold the execution; but what will you say to the minister or priest that accompanied him? The wretch, after taking leave, went into a landau, where, not content with seeing the Doctor hanged, he let down the top of the landau for the better convenience of seeing him embowelled! I cannot tell you positively that what I hinted of this Cameron being commissioned from Prussia was true, but so it is believed. Adieu! my dear child; I... Horace Walpole, Books, History, Letters Of Horace Walpole - Volume Ii Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153739870

No Synopsis Available Letters of Horace Walpole -, 9781153739870, Book, Textbook Books > Biography & Autobiography > Arts Paperback, General Books