 | 1831 - 652 pages
...constitution. He positively refused to lend a farthing. He was required to give his reasons. He answered, ' that he could be content to lend * as well as others,...feared to draw upon himself that curse ' in Magna Chiirta which should be read twice a-year against ' those who infringe it.' For this noble answer,... | |
 | 1864 - 618 pages
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 | 1832 - 614 pages
...fellow-citizens, as the speaker of the bold and remarkable reply which Rushworth has preserved for us — "That he could be content to lend as well as others,...curse in Magna Charta, which should be read twice a-year against those who infringe it." Then followed rigorous imprisonment, — the exactions of loans... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...asked why he would not contribute to the King's necessities, made this bold and remarkable reply.* ' " That he could be content to lend, as well as others,...committed him to a close and rigorous imprisonment in the Gate- house. Being again brought before the Council, and persisting in his first refusal, he wag sent... | |
 | 1832 - 660 pages
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 | George Nugent Grenville Baron Nugent - 1832 - 452 pages
...why he would not contribute to the King's necessities, made this bold and remarkable reply*. — ' That he could be content ' to lend, as well as others,...property nearly the largest possessed by any commoner in England, committed him to a close and rigorous imprisonment in the Gate-house. Being again brought... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 pages
...asked why he would not contribute to the king's necessities, made this bold and remarkable reply.. •' That he could be content to lend, as well as others,...against those who infringe it." The privy council, notbeing satisfied with his own recognizance to appear at the board, although answerable with a landed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 pages
...asked why he would not contribute to the king's necessities, made this bold and remarkable reply. " That he could be content to lend, as well as others, but feared todraw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should be read twice a year against those who... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 530 pages
...constitution. He positively refused to lend a farthing. He was required to give his reasons. He answered, " that he could be content to " lend as well as others,...read twice a year " against those who infringe it." For this noble answer, the Privy Council committed him close prisoner to the Gate House. After some... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1833 - 574 pages
...endeavouring to levy in lieu of parliamentary supplies, he refused, thus pointedly assigning his reason; "That he could be content to lend, as well as others,...Charta which should be read twice a year against those that infringe it." Upon this he was committed by the council to close custody in the Gatehouse prison... | |
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that he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should be read twice a year against those who infringe it. 
