The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ECUTION OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. [1520, disposed persons made unto your noble father, of famous memory. * Thisopen acknowledgment of the possibility of an unjust conviction, under theforms of law, might have led the king who would show no mercy to Bucking-ham, judged as he was upon the most frivolous accusations, to think that thedeclaration of his high will might have some effect in calling forth such untrue representations. The time was not yet arrived when he should
The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ECUTION OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. [1520, disposed persons made unto your noble father, of famous memory. * Thisopen acknowledgment of the possibility of an unjust conviction, under theforms of law, might have led the king who would show no mercy to Bucking-ham, judged as he was upon the most frivolous accusations, to think that thedeclaration of his high will might have some effect in calling forth such untrue representations. The time was not yet arrived when he shouldfind his ready instruments of despotism in the highest of the land; andwhen he should be able to perpetrate, through his slaves in a parliament,the murders which the oriental despot could effect by a single sign to theeunuchs of the seraglio. He tasted of blood when he put Buckingham todeath ; and after a few more years, during which his will, being unquestioned,was less tyrannical, he showed that his reHsh for it was not to be satisfied tohis dying hour. * 4 Hen. VIII. c. 9, first printed in the Statutes by Bas-relief. Sleeting of HcEiy »ad Fixnoisi
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