Albert Hartshorne

Hanging in Chains Albert Hartshorne

Publisher Marketing: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... rot, and their crimes live for ever against them!" The crimes in question were combination against the truth, and opposition unto holiness, figuratively deserving the highest punishment that could be awarded. In that strange, shameful, and scarce book, "Le Moyen de Parvenir," by Beroalde de Verville, it is recorded that when Charles V. made his entry into Douai, the inhabitants set up triumphal arches and like embellishments. At the last moment they bethought themselves of a wretch who was gibbeted hard by the gate of the principal entrance. Him they therefore dressed in a clean white shirt, to do honour to the emperor.1 It will be noticed that they did not take the body away, which would have been easier; that would have been illegal. 1 "Quand l'Empereur Charles y fit son entree; les gens de cette ville-la lui voulurent faire tout l'honneur qu'ils purent. Et faisant de belle facons d'arcades, chapeaux de triomphes, poiteaux et telles magnificences, ils s'aviserent d'un pendu qui etait a la porte de la ville et principale entree. Ils oterent a ce pendu sa chemise sale, et lui en mirent une blanche pour faire honneur a Monsieur l'Empereur" (Le Moyen de Parvenir: contenant la raison de tout ce qui a 616, est et sera. Nulle Part., 1000700504, vol. ii. p. 249). Before proceeding further it must be stated, as it were to clear the ground, that there were certain treasonable offences for which women might be convicted, and it is to the credit of the English law that the solemn and terrible sentence was not carried out upon them in its fulness, so that, both for high treason and 'petit treason, the sentence ordered merely drawing to the gallows and burning alive. This...