The Overbury Mystery: A Chronicle of Facts and Drama of the LawT.F. Unwin, Limited, 1925 - 327 էջ Concerning the events leading up to the death of Sir Thomas Overbury, and the arraignment of Lady Frances Howard, the Earl of Essex, and their agents for his murder. |
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... Forman 69 · 75 85 Part II : The Prologue XI . Chartley XII . Court Circular XIII . The Quarrel XIV . Overbury to the Tower XV . The Divorce Commission XVI . Secrets of the Tower · 97 106 II2 • 121 130 · 137 XVII . The Death of Overbury ...
... Forman 69 · 75 85 Part II : The Prologue XI . Chartley XII . Court Circular XIII . The Quarrel XIV . Overbury to the Tower XV . The Divorce Commission XVI . Secrets of the Tower · 97 106 II2 • 121 130 · 137 XVII . The Death of Overbury ...
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... Forman . She was now living under the protection of Sir Arthur Maynwaring , who was the father of her children . He was a man of good family , with land at Over Peover in Cheshire , where the Maynwarings , like the Overburys , were of ...
... Forman . She was now living under the protection of Sir Arthur Maynwaring , who was the father of her children . He was a man of good family , with land at Over Peover in Cheshire , where the Maynwarings , like the Overburys , were of ...
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... Forman , the magician , " whispered Mrs. Turner . " I have heard of him , " said the girl , slowly repeating the name . " Simon Forman ! The Prince called him the Devil's servant , and said he ought to be 82 The Overbury Mystery.
... Forman , the magician , " whispered Mrs. Turner . " I have heard of him , " said the girl , slowly repeating the name . " Simon Forman ! The Prince called him the Devil's servant , and said he ought to be 82 The Overbury Mystery.
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... Forman had deceived me ; Sir Arthur would not return . Yet I sat in the dark waiting and waiting , hoping against hope . Mid- night chimed , and at the last stroke there was a loud knock at the door . I flew downstairs . There was Sir ...
... Forman had deceived me ; Sir Arthur would not return . Yet I sat in the dark waiting and waiting , hoping against hope . Mid- night chimed , and at the last stroke there was a loud knock at the door . I flew downstairs . There was Sir ...
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... a Madonna , bent down and kissed the lovely girl on her lips as if to plant the seal of Judas on the Devil's pact she had made for the barter of her soul . Chapter X : Simon Forman IMON FORMAN was a born 84 The Overbury Mystery.
... a Madonna , bent down and kissed the lovely girl on her lips as if to plant the seal of Judas on the Devil's pact she had made for the barter of her soul . Chapter X : Simon Forman IMON FORMAN was a born 84 The Overbury Mystery.
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The Overbury Mystery: A Chronicle of Fact and Drama of the Law Edward Abbott Parry Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2011 |
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Abbot affair Archbishop Archbishop Abbot asked Attorney Bacon beautiful Cecil Chancellor Chartley Coke confession Countess of Essex Countess of Somerset Countess of Suffolk Court death doctor Earl of Essex Earl of Northampton Earl of Somerset evidence eyes father favour favourite fear Frances Howard Gervase Helwys girl grave guilty hand heard heart Henry Howard honour husband James jury King King's knew lady laughed letters Lidcote Lieutenant Lord Chief Justice Lord High Steward lover Majesty marriage masque master Mayerne mind Monson murder never Northampton House nullity Commission Overbury's peers physician play poor Prince Henry prisoner Queen Robert Carr Rochester royal seemed sent Serjeant servant Simon Forman Sir Gervase Sir Robert Sir Thomas Monson Sir Thomas Overbury stood story strange Suffolk tell things thought to-day told Tower trial truth Turner Villiers Weston whispered Whitehall wife Winwood woman words wretch writing young youth
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Էջ 235 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Էջ 161 - ... or truth, of human life — such a truth as might be formulated critically in an abstract and general proposition — which the dramatist contrives to convey concretely to his auditors through the particular medium of his story. Thus, the theme of Ghosts...
Էջ 290 - ... that you find the Commissioners have, you know not how, some secret assurance that in the end she will confess of him : but this must only be as from yourself...
Էջ 298 - Then when they had this poor gentleman in the Tower close prisoner, where he could not escape nor stir, where he could not feed but by their hands, where he could not speak nor write but through their trunks ; then was the time to execute the last act of this tragedy. Then must Franklin be purveyor of the poisons, and procure five, six,, seven several potions, to be sure to hit his complexion.
Էջ 240 - Since I saw you, I saw Mrs. Turner die. If detestation of painted pride, lust, malice, powdered hair, yellow bands, and the rest of the wardrobe of court vanities, — if deep sighs, tears, confessions, ejaculations of the soul, admonitions of all sorts of people to make God and an unspotted conscience always our friends, — if the protestation of faith and hope to be washed by the same Saviour and...
Էջ 208 - God's sake, let me," said the King, "shall I? shall I?" Then lolled about his neck. Then: "For God's sake, give thy lady this kiss for me.
Էջ 283 - ... you are to be drawn on hurdles to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Էջ 290 - You shall therefore give him assurance in my name, that if he will yet before his trial confess clearly unto the Commissioners his guiltiness of this fact, I will not only perform what I promised by my last Messenger, both towards him and his wife, but I will enlarge it, according to the phrase of the civil law, quod gratiac sunt ampliandcC.
Էջ 310 - I assure myself you will not take circumstances for evidence, for if you should the conditions of a man's life were nothing. In the meantime you may see the excellence of the King's justice, which makes no distinction, putting me into your hands for a just and equal censure. For my part, I protest before God I was neither guilty of, nor privy to, any wrong that Overbury suffered in this kind.
Էջ 119 - Overbury for so slighting her, answered : ' My own legs are straight and strong enough to bear me up, but, in faith, I will be even with you for this...