History of Charles the First And the English Revolution, From the Accession of Charles the First to His Execution 1
History of Charles the First And the English Revolution, From the Accession of Charles the First to His Execution 1
Guizot (François)
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"My lords/' said Prynne, "you require impossibilities." The Court merely reiterated ito former declaration. The trial opened with a brutal insult to one of the prisoners. Four years previously, for another pamphlet, Prynne had been sentenced to lose his ears. "I had thought," said Lord Finch, looking at him, " Mr. Prynne had no ears ; but me* thinks he hath ears." For the better satisfaction of the curiosity of the judges, an usher of the Court was commanded to turn up his hair, and show his mu...ti- lated ears ; " upon the sight whereof the lords were displeased they had been formerly no more cut off," and burst into invectives against him. " I hope your honours will not be offended," said Prynne, "pray God give you ears to hear." 1 They were sentenced to the pillory, to lose their ears, to pay a fine of 5000/. a-piece, and to be im- 1 State Trials, vol. iii., oolfl. 716-717. AKD THE BN8LI8H BEVOMJTION. 223 prisoned for life. On the day on which the sentence was executed, the 30th of June, 1637, an immense crowd thronged to the place of punishment ; the exe- cutioner wished to keep them off; " Let them come, and spare not," said Burton, " that they may learn to suffer." The man was moved, and did not insist.
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