Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity..

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Society of Antiquaries of London. Sold at the house of the Society [of Antiquaries], in Chancery-Lane; and by Messieurs Whiston, White, Robson Baker and Leigh, and Brown., 1792 - 8 pages
 

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Page 141 - Nay, madam, he is a doctor; never rack his person, but rack his style: let him have pen, ink, and paper, and help of books, and be enjoined to continue the story where it breaketh off, and I will undertake, by collating the styles, to judge whether he were the author or no...
Page 141 - Queen could not be persuaded that it was his writing whose name was to it, but that it had some more mischievous author, and said with great indignation, that she would have him racked to produce his author, I replied : ' Nay, Madam, he is a doctor ; never rack his person, but rack his...
Page 142 - It is very remarkable, that when the parliament of Scotland framed their claim of right, in April 1689, they only declared, that the ufing torture, without evidence, or in ordinary crimes, is contrary to law [g].
Page 439 - The infide of the wall enclofmg the area has ibmetimes a (ingle or double colonade all round ; which being covered over, the top forms a parapet for the purpofes of defence in time of war. As the temples are by much too fmall to contain the great concourfe of people who come to celebrate the public feftivals and worihip the deity, there is in general a large building foi that purpofe attached to it, called a choultry, which is compofed of a number of...
Page 140 - Peacock, for the better difcovery of the truth of this treafon; this ihall be likewife to authorize you, or any two of you, whereof yourfelf to be one, to examine the faid Peacock from time to time, and to put him, as there mail be caufe, for the better rnanifeftation of the truth, to the torture, either of the manacles, or the rack; for which this ihall be your warrant.
Page 83 - ... parish priest, with many of his brethren priests there present, hallowing the said weathercock, and the stone that it stands upon, and so conveyed upon the said broach; and then the said priests singing Te Deum Laudamus with organs, and then the kirkwardens garred ring all the bells, and caused all the people there being to have bread and ale, and all the loving of GOD, our lady, and all saints.
Page 440 - ... name (that of Lingam) is adopted all over India. ' The image or reprefentation of the deity is placed in the middle of the apartment facing the door. It is a block of black granite, about four feet high, of a conic ihape, with the outlines of a human face on the top, and a gold arch over it, carved in open work, refembling the glory.
Page 364 - Grofthed, biihop of Lincoln (whofe life, begun by Dr. Knight, muft have been very acceptable had he finiflied it), we, of this nation principally owe, I apprehend, our knowledge of the « cyphers or prefent figures. The authority I have for this notion has, to my great furprize, been hitherto overlooked, though very remarkable, and equally clear. It is in the continuation of Matthew Paris
Page 141 - Such was the former practice ; and filch the happy difufe of torture in England! Yet, in Scotland, the rack continued to terrify and debafe the people for ages afterwards. Sir GeOrge Mackenzie...
Page 139 - IPrefumed to think, that whatever had a tendency to trace the modes of our government, or to mark the improvement of our freedom, would not be deemed by you altogether unworthy of your learned curiofity. And I was thus induced to communicate to you a copy of a warrant of the privy council, as late as...

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