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Page 51 - ... repaired to the council, and when all the spectators had been ordered to retire, they introduced the wretched woman. She held a babe in her arms, of which she loudly and impudently affirmed that Eustathius was the father. Eustathius, conscious of his innocence, asked her whether she could bring forward any witness to prove what she had advanced. She replied that she could not: yet these equitable judges admitted her to oath, although it is said in the law, that "at the mouth of two or three witnesses...
Page 223 - ... never, in the whole of his long experience, witnessed such nerve and unfaltering resolution. The Rev. Mr. Caine, the Protestant chaplain of the gaol, reported that he had become truly penitent, and had acknowledged the justice of his sentence. Almost immediately the clock struck eight the door opening from the prison upon the scaffold was thrown back upon its hinges, and Faherty came to the front with a firm and unfaltering step. He gazed upon the vast crowd with calmness and deliberation. He...