...comes from " lying in thirty-two prisons," here and there, as he went testifying through England, " in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday " ; and " narrowly escaping the gallows." It needed such a man to lead the forlorn hope and save for...

...a persecuted man, of violent passions. He died in Northampton jail in 1630, after boasting that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not sec his hand at noonday. JC ROGERS. Mr. Hall will find full particulars concerning the " Brownists...

...usually with his liberation by Elizabeth's powerful minister. To this period his boast applies that he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not, as he said, see his hand at noon-day. His assistant, Richard Harrison, who, though " a petty pedagogue,"...

...found ready listeners. After a long struggle, in the course of which, as he afterwards boasted, he had " been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday,"2 he withdrew with some followers to Middleburg, in Zealand, where they established a congregation....

...There, not long after, he sickened and died, in 1630, aged upwards of eighty years, boasting " that he had been committed to thirtytwo prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon day." There is a considerable amount of mystery connected with this eventful life. A bold and...

...constantly arrested and thrown into prison. He boasted that he had seen the inside of no less than thirty-two prisons, " in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day." He was again and again delivered by the influence of Lord Burleigh, while some of his unfortunate followers...

...in which they were cruelly abused by 1 Brown said that he had been in thirty-two different dungeons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day. This must be overstated , for with thirty-two separate commitments and releases he could hardly have...

...magistrate, and he d. shortly after his committal. He used to boast, " that he had been incarcerated in thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday." His sect long survived him. In the civil wars it bore the name of the Independents.— THOMAS, a writer...

...having been incarcerated in thirty-two different prisons for these offences. " At length," says Neal, " he gathered a separate congregation of his own principles, but the Queen and her bishops watching them so narrowly they were quickly forced to leave the kingdom." This was the Norwich congregation. We learn...

...found ready listeners. After a long struggle, in the course of which, as he afterwards boasted, he had " been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noonday,"2 he withdrew with some followers to Middleburg, in Zealand, where they established a congregation....