The book Memoirs of the Pretenders And Their Adherents 2 was written by author Jesse, John Heneage, 1815-1874 Here you can read free online of Memoirs of the Pretenders And Their Adherents 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Memoirs of the Pretenders And Their Adherents 2 a good or bad book?
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Throughout his trial, and indeed up to the moment when the fatal axe subsequently fell upon him. Lord Balmerino displayed the greatest fortitude and cheerful- ness; apparently despising death itself as much as he despised those who inflicted it. » The first day," writes Gray, the poet, *« while the Peers were adjourned to con. eider of his plea. Lord Balmerino diverted himself with the aze that stood by him, played with the tassels, and tried the edge with his finger.*' On his return to the Tow...er, after sentence had been passed on him, he stopped the coach, we are told, at Charing Cross, to buy honey-blobt^ as the Scotch call gooseberries ; and again, Horace Wal- pole writes to George Montagu a few days afterwards ; — M Old Balmerino keeps up his spirits in the same pitch of gaiety. In the cell at Westminster, he showed Lord Kilmarnock how he must lay his head; bid him not wince, lest the stroke should cut his skull or his shoulders, and advised him to bite his lips. As they were to retuni, he begged they might have another bottle together, as -they should never meet any more till , and then pointed to his neck.
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