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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the bustling court, and many others in different parts of the tower, through which the bold and striking scenery of the Severn and the Wyo was constantly attainable, must have given to this state prison a cheerfulness and comfort which robbed captivity of half its cares. For whom, then, was this princely apartment designed ? What mild offender was he with whom the British Government so mildly dealt ? He was the son of Henry Marten, a principal Judge of the Admiralty, twice Dean of the Arches, a Knight, and, in 1624, Judge of the Prerogative Court; and, moreover, was in high favour with King James I., who died September 26, 1641, aged 80, and was buried at his seat at Longworth, near Abingdon, Berks. His son Henry, who possessed considerable talents, was a commoner at Oxford, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1618. He afterwards entered one of the inns of court: then travelled in France, and on his return married a lady of considerable worth; but a separation took place between them shortly after. He was elected a knight of the shire for Berks, and sat in two riotous and insubordinate Parliaments. He subsequently became one of those notorious judges, at whose hands the blood of an anointed king will one day be required. On the usurpation of Cromwell, Marten, true to his extreme republican principles, did not appear among the number of his friends. After the Restoration, he surrendered on the proclamation, and was tried as a regicide at the Old Bailey, confessing the fact of attending the trial, and signing the warrant for the king's death; but he denied any malicious intention. He rested his defence on the necessity of obedience to the then existing government, allowing that his Majesty had the best title under heaven to the dignity of King, being called theret...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217398770
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217398774
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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