Apart from the business-like way in which towns were pillaged, the custom of ransoming prisoners imported a very definite commercial element into knightly life.
This is not fair to Rogers; he was entirely within his rights in sacking and ransoming Guayaquil, as a subject of a Power at war with Spain, and armed with a commission from his sovereign.
Ransoming was subsequently forbidden to British privateers, and other precautions against semi-piracy were instituted, more or less copied from the French, who were always in advance of us in their regulation of privateering.
Or if the thieves of Rokehope or the Debateable Lands, or of those places that I do not know, had taken him, would they not have made more attempts at his ransoming than once sending to Castle Lovell?
In that case I will pay them what the ransoming would have been.
On the day he said his first mass, by a special inspiration from God, he resolved to devote himself to the ransoming of Christian slaves from captivity.
He found means of ransoming young slaves, whom he baptized, instructed in letters, and ordained; sending them through the country to minister the Word of God.
The Dominican monks, whom the Pope has delegated to sell plenary indulgences, also sell the ransomingof souls in pain.
The message to Antiochus was sent openly; the ambassador to Eumenes went under the pretence of ransoming prisoners.
Such use would divert it from its true employment—the ransoming of Filipino captives and the aiding of their hospitals, and therefore the cabildo petitions that the request be not acceded to.
With those restitutions quitrents were bought, and the money received therefrom is spent in ransoming the many captives in the power of surrounding enemies and in other alms which are made, both general and private.
Some of the poor creatures were already dead, some had escaped, or had passed to other owners, but Mr. Porter succeeded in ransoming the rest.
Thus the ransomingof the city seemed to be but the beginning of strife.
Suppose," answers he, "that I cannot obtain a public office except by ransoming ten citizens out of a great number of captives, will you owe me nothing for setting you free from slavery and bondage?
I am therefore your debtor, not for ransoming me but for choosing me, since you might have attained the same result by ransoming some one else instead of me.
All your hopes of ransoming the boys rest now upon the fact of Hunston and Toro being with the brigands.
They went deeply into the question of ransoming the boys, for they were convinced that they had really fallen into the hands of the brigands.
This is more a question ofransoming the town and countryside, foster father," answered Thorleif.
I suppose that if you paid for his man, my friend has to repay you for ransoming him.
He did, indeed, send ambassadors to Rome, with powers to treat for the ransoming of some Roman prisoners, but as before in the case of the Gauls, the envoys were not even given a hearing by the senate.
They became the accredited agents for the ransoming of prisoners, and also for their exchange and even the Mahometans learned to trust and eventually to reverence them.
Whilest these things were a dooing, in some places the French souldiers of the Dolphins, lacking wages (as the time serued) tooke both Englishmen and Burgognians, ransoming and spoiling them at their pleasure.
Probably the introduction of this new material accounts for the transposition of the ransoming and the burial, as the latter is in other respects regular.
The most striking peculiarity of the variant is the loss of the burial, for which appears rather awkwardly the ransoming of some peasants on the hero's second voyage.
On this expedition, however, he succeeds merely in ransoming a Christian girl, whom he takes home.
The order of the burial and the ransoming [125] is here reversed, but the facts are given in the ordinary form.
It will be noted that in the compound he usually makes two voyages, burying the dead on the first and ransoming the maiden on the second, though the two are sometimes welded.
The burial, however, persists, though the ransoming of the woman has been feebly replaced by the aid of the saint and the Virgin.
It ought, however, to be observed that the practice of ransoming prisoners might be revived if convenient, provided the ransom is to be paid not to the individual captor but to the belligerent whose forces made the capture.
King Henry forbade the ransoming of the prisoners, an interference which aroused the bitter wrath of the Percies.
St. Germanus, a bishop of Paris, near the close of the sixth century, was especially famous for his zeal in ransoming captives.
St. Peter Nolasco, whose great labours in ransoming captive Christians I have already noticed, was an active participator in the atrocious massacre of the Albigenses.
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