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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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WARREN HASTINGS. of this mans death ! and leaving his play, shuthimself up to mourn alone in his chamber. That same year witnessed another victim ofHenrys caprice doomed to the block in West-minster Hall, in the person of John Fisher, Bishopof Rochester, who had inflexibly opposed thedivorce of the king, and his assumption of spiritualsupremacy. In July, 1535, William Lord Dacre of theNorth was accused of high treason ; he was the Here, at the fatal bar, the Protector Somerset, once all-powerful in the state, and the darling ofthe people, was brought to trial, in 1551, to befollowed shortly afterwards by the Earl of Warwick,the Marquis of Northampton, the Protectors rival,Northumberland, and Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk,father of the unhappy Lady Jane (irey. In 1554,Sir Thomas Wyatt was arraigned here for higlitreason. Another peer of the realm, Lord Stourton. was Westminster Hall.) TRIALS FOR HIGH TREASON. !547
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54S OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Westminster HitJI. publicly tried in West-minster Hall, as far back asthe year 1556, for the murder of a Mr. Hartgylland his son in Wiltshire, under ^•ery aggravatedcircumstances. The commission for trying hislordship was directed to the judges and to certainmembers of the Privy Council. At first LordStourton refused to plead, but the chief justiceinformed him that, if he persisted in his refusal,his high rank should not excuse him from beingpressed to death. Upon this he confessed himselfguilty, and was hanged at Salisbury, with a silkenhalter. There is a monument to his memory inSalisbury Cathedral, where some years ago thesilken cord with which he was executed was to beseen suspended. A curious incident occurred in the year 1555,on the occasion of the Lord Mayor presenting thesheriffs to the Barons of the Exchequer. The rain,it appears, fell in such torrents that the Hall wasfilled with water, and boats were rowed into KingStreet from the landing-place—

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