...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very...

...pleading for the Earl's life and proposing his perpetual imprisonment. But even the request in the postscript — " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday " — was rejected, and Strafford was led to the scaffold on Tower Hill next morning. Passing under...

...to commute the punishment of death into that of perpetual imprisonment; the letter, however, had a postscript: 'If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' But the discovery of the plot for Strafford's release had made longer imprisonment impossible, and...

...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very...

...were these — " But if no less than his life can satisfy my people, I must say ' fiat justitia.' " Postscript. — If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." By this strange postscript Charles indeed manifestly surrendered Strafford, and gave the lords cause...

...to commute the punishment of death into that of perpetual imprisonment; the letter, however, had a postscript: 'If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.' But the discovery of the plot for Strafford's release had made longer imprisonment impossible, and...

...no less than his life can satisfy my people, I must say, . Fiat yustitia." In a postscript he adds, '<If he must die, it were charity to reprieve, him till Saturday." This postscript is said to have sealed the earl's doom. The next morning (12th) was appointed for his...

...respite for his friend. But it was not probable that a letter which closed with such words as these : " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday," should have much effect. On the 12th of May, at noon, the great Earl was beheaded. While the showy...

...respite for his friend. But it was not probable that a letter which closed with such words as these : " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday," should have much effect. On the 12th of May, at noon, the great Earl was beheaded. While the showy...

...natural course of his life in a close imprisonment." In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday." If there had been any doubt of his fate, this weakness and meanness would have settled it. The very...