The Haileybury Observer Volume 1-2 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...blind credulity of the times entrusted the lives and properties of the most illustrious personages of the age, whose perjured attestations were sufficient to put in jeopardy the lives of the innocent, and who was allowed with impunity to tarnish the brightness of British justice. Among the many plots of the day, one of the most conspicuous was the Meal Tub Plot; so called from the circumstance of some important papers having been found concealed in a meal tub. All these plots were attributed to the Catholics; and scarcely had the minds of the people recovered from these shocks, when the whole country was suddenly electrified by the discovery of a Protestant Plot, the object of which was to kill the King and the Duke, and to give the crown, some proposed to the Duke of Monmouth, while others wished for a Commonwealth. The plot was at first discovered by the information of a man named Keeling, who, as Bishop Burnet describes him, was sinking in his business, and began to think that of a witness would be a better trade. The information which he brought to Secretary The chace of the boar Serimner was one of the chief amusements of those admitted into the palace of Odin, every day it was hunted and slain, and every day reanimated. Jenkins was the following: --The King was in the habit of going to Newmarket in April and October every year. At the Spring meeting of this year, while he was at Newmarket his house caught fire, and he was compelled to return to London a week sooner than he originally intended; this it was which entirely disconcerted the conspirators. Their plan, as far as could be gathered, ran thus: --The Rye was fixed on for the scene of their traitorous measures, as it was conveniently situated in a wild open country, on the side of a road, which the.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...blind credulity of the times entrusted the lives and properties of the most illustrious personages of the age, whose perjured attestations were sufficient to put in jeopardy the lives of the innocent, and who was allowed with impunity to tarnish the brightness of British justice. Among the many plots of the day, one of the most conspicuous was the Meal Tub Plot; so called from the circumstance of some important papers having been found concealed in a meal tub. All these plots were attributed to the Catholics; and scarcely had the minds of the people recovered from these shocks, when the whole country was suddenly electrified by the discovery of a Protestant Plot, the object of which was to kill the King and the Duke, and to give the crown, some proposed to the Duke of Monmouth, while others wished for a Commonwealth. The plot was at first discovered by the information of a man named Keeling, who, as Bishop Burnet describes him, was sinking in his business, and began to think that of a witness would be a better trade. The information which he brought to Secretary The chace of the boar Serimner was one of the chief amusements of those admitted into the palace of Odin, every day it was hunted and slain, and every day reanimated. Jenkins was the following: --The King was in the habit of going to Newmarket in April and October every year. At the Spring meeting of this year, while he was at Newmarket his house caught fire, and he was compelled to return to London a week sooner than he originally intended; this it was which entirely disconcerted the conspirators. Their plan, as far as could be gathered, ran thus: --The Rye was fixed on for the scene of their traitorous measures, as it was conveniently situated in a wild open country, on the side of a road, which the.

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 15mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

276

ISBN-13

978-1-235-91122-4

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9781235911224

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1-235-91122-5



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