| Mathew Carey - 1823 - 534 pages
...they had been destined. t The same good for^^^^^^аддаЯяу^^жшл»^^^^^^^ • them all to him. The worst is, they are so miserably poor, that we...fain to give them some allowance ; and they find it mare honourable and safe to be king's evidence, than a cowstealer, though that be their natural profession,"010... | |
| James Stuart - 1900 - 532 pages
...religion, is a main inducement to bring in a shoal of informers. The worst is, they are so miserably poor, we are fain to give them some allowance; and they find it more honourable and safe to be king's evidence than a cow-stealer, though that be their natural profess1on." The witnesses arrived... | |
| James F. Lydon - 1998 - 440 pages
...of personal hatreds - they were dismissed out of hand by Ormond, the lord lieutenant, in a letter: They find it more honourable and safe to be the king's evidence than a cowstealer' - that the case against Plunkett was adjourned at Dundalk. But the archbishop was brought to London,... | |
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