History and Description of the Ancient Town and Borough of Colchester, in Essex, Band 1W. Simpkin & R. Masshall, 1826 |
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Abbey afterwards ancient appears arms army authority became Bernard Gascoigne besieged Bishop borough Botolph's Britain British Britons burgesses Cæsar Camulodunum Cassi Cassivellaun Castle charter church Claudius Coel Colchester colony command commencement Constantine council Cunobeline defence Earl of Norwich East edifice Edward enemy erected Essex Eudo Eudo Dapifer expence Fairfax favour force formed garrison gentlemen George Lisle held in King Henry Hertfordshire HISTORY OF COLCHESTER honour horse houses Iceni inhabitants island John John's King Edward's King's kingdom latter Lexden liberty London Lord Capel Lord Norwich manor Matthew Carter Middlesex military monarch Morant Norman occasion officers paid rent parish Parliament Parliamentarians party period possessed present probably province quarter reign remains river Roman Royalists Saxon seat sent shillings side Siege Sir Charles Lucas Sir George Lisle Sir Harbottle soldiers Stort Street Suetonius Suffolk Thames town Trinovantes Trinovantum Verulam walls warlike William
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Seite 152 - Sir Bernard Gascoigne was a gentleman of Florence ; and had served the king in the war, and afterwards remained in London till the unhappy adventure of Colchester, and then accompanied his friends thither; and had only English enough to make himself understood, that he desired a pen and ink and paper, that he might write a letter to his prince the great duke, that his highness might know in what manner he lost his life, to the end his heirs might possess his estate. The officer that attended the...
Seite 155 - Commons, and so most proper judges in their case, who were considerable for estates and families ; but Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, being mere soldiers of fortune, and falling into our hands by chance of war, were executed ; and in this I did nothing but according to my commission and the trust reposed in me.
Seite 147 - Generall may be free to put some immediately to the sword (if he see cause) although his Excellency intends chiefly and for the generality of those under that condition, to surrender them to the mercy of the Parliament and Generall. There hath been large experience...
Seite 181 - In the beginning of the long parliament he was a great assertor of the laws, and invei¡jhed severely against all that had been concerned in the former illegal oppression. His principle was, that allegiance and protection were mutual obligations ; and that the one went for the other. He thought the law was the measure of both ; and that when a legal protection was denied to one that paid a legal allegiance, the subject had a right to defend himself.
Seite 227 - Charles I., and that his son, Charles II., ordered this memorial of their loyalty to be erased.
Seite 152 - Gascoigne had his doublet off, and expected the next turn; but the officer told him "he had order to carry him back to his " friends ;" which at that time was very indifferent to him. The council of war had considered, that if they should in this manner have taken the life of a foreigner, who seemed to be a person of quality, their friends or children who should visit Italy might pay dear for many generations ; and therefore they commanded the officer, " when the " other two should be dead, to carry...
Seite 116 - That there were with him sundry gentlemen of quality, and towns-men of good estates and eminent in trade, who offered to buy all the bays and says in the town at the usual prices, and to pay for them, within a fortnight after the town should be rendered, or quitted to him: And...
Seite 181 - he was a great assertor of the laws, and inveighed severely against all that had been concerned in the former illegal oppression. His principle was, that allegiance and protection were mutual obligations, and that the one went for the other : he thought...
Seite 150 - ... to deliver themselves up to mercy, it was necessary, for the example of others, and that the peace of the kingdom might be no more disturbed in that manner, that some military justice should be executed; and therefore, that council had determined they three should be presently shot to death...
Seite 152 - Then, after some filial expressions of duty to his father and mother, and recommendations to some other friends, turning to the spectators, he said, " Oh! how many of your lives here have I saved in hot blood, and must now myself be most barbarously murdered in cold blood ? But what dare...