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" To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers armed with weapons, — what can be the excuse ? Warned by the Lord Keeper, by a herald, and yet persist ! Will any simple man take this to be less than treason ? The Earl of Essex answered... "
An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon - Page 339
by James Spedding - 1878
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His ..., Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1862 - 532 pages
...Southampton would have it believed, that condemns them of treason.1 To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers armed with weapons,...so slender a company. Whereunto Mr. Bacon answered : It was not the company you carried with you, but the assistance which you hoped for in the City which...
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works ...

Francis Bacon - 1862 - 416 pages
...Southampton would have it believed, that condemns them of treason.1 To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers armed with weapons,...so slender a company. Whereunto Mr. Bacon answered : It was not the company you carried with you, but the assistance which you hoped for in the City which...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 9

Francis Bacon - 1862 - 448 pages
...treason. 1 To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers armed with weapons,—what can be the excuse ? Warned by the Lord Keeper, by...slender a company. "Whereunto Mr. Bacon answered: It was not the company you carried with you, but the assistance which you hoped for in the City which...
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works ...

Francis Bacon - 1862 - 418 pages
...Southampton would have it believed, that condemns them of treason.1 To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers armed with weapons,...man take this to be less than treason ? The Earl of Esaex answered that if he had purposed anything against others than those his private enemies, he would...
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Mornings of the Recess, 1861-4, Volume 1

Samuel Lucas - 1864 - 362 pages
...the legal construction of treason, and objected that if he had purposed anything against others than his private enemies he would not have stirred with...slender a company. " Whereunto Mr. Bacon answered, ' It was not the company you carried with you, but the assistance which you hoped for in the city that...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 28

1876 - 1072 pages
...condemns them of treason, but it is apparent in common sense. To take secret counsel, to execute it, to nm together in numbers, armed with weapons, — what...any simple man take this to be less. than treason?." Upon this Essex argued that " if he had purposed anything against others than those his private enemies,...
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Bacon and Essex: A Sketch of Bacon's Earlier Life

Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 pages
...that condemns them of treason, but it is apparent in common sense. To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers armed with weapons...would not have stirred with so slender a company. But Bacon crushed him with an illustration from modern history far more damaging to Essex, and likely...
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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 1

James Spedding - 1881 - 438 pages
...that condemns them of treason, but it is apparent in common sense. To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers, armed with weapons,...will any simple man take this to be less than treason ? " Upon this Essex argued that " if he had purposed anything against others than those his private...
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Evenings with reviewer; or, A free and particular examination of ..., Volume 1

James Spedding - 1881 - 464 pages
...that condemns them of treason, but it is apparent in common sense. To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers, armed with weapons,...be the excuse ? Warned by the Lord Keeper— by a herald—and yet persist; will any simple man take this to be less than treason ?" Upon this Essex...
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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 1

James Spedding - 1881 - 440 pages
...that condemns them of treason, but it is apparent in common sense. To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers, armed with weapons,...be the excuse ? Warned by the Lord Keeper— by a herald—and yet persist; will any simple man take this to be less than treason ? " Upon this Essex...
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