In 1319, the Earls of Kildare and Louth, and the Lord Arnold le Poer, were appointed a commission to inquire into all treasons committed in Ireland during Bruce's invasion.
Family feuds and householdtreasons were its natural results for two or three generations; in the midst of these broils two neighbouring families rose into greater importance, the O'Reillys in Cavan and the Maguires in Fermanagh.
Yet all these manifold treasons by no means seemed to destroy his influence, or even to fix any peculiar stain of infamy on his character.
He had, indeed, been a traitor to every party in the State; but his treasons had hitherto prospered.
They seem to have again tried to carry out their treasons by stirring up family jealousy.
At the close of the banquet Svatopluk suddenly turned upon Mutina, and accused him and his family of being the authors of all the treasons in Bohemia for many years past.
It was he That made the ouerture of thy Treasons to vs: Who is too good to pitty thee Glou.
Know my name is lost By Treasons tooth: bare-gnawne, and Canker-bit, Yet am I Noble as the Aduersary I come to cope Alb.
Thus in her crime her confidence she plac'd, And with new treasonswould redeem the past.
Let them not fear the treasons of the night, The robb'd Palladium, the pretended flight: Our onset shall be made in open light.
If you were thrall to sorrow, And I were page to joy, We'd play for lives and seasons With loving looks and treasons And tears of night and morrow And laughs of maid and boy; If you were thrall to sorrow, And I were page to joy.
Popham's answer was: 'This thing cannot be granted; for then a number oftreasons should flourish.
If he were guilty of worse than this, it is a solecism in the history of treasons that in the course of three centuries not a tittle of evidence of it should have been unearthed.
The provision cited by Ralegh from Philip and Mary's repealing statute, Popham ruled, applied solely to the specific treasons it mentioned.
He invoked mercy in the name of English law, 'who knowing her own cruelty, and that she is wont to compound treasons out of presumptions and circumstances, does advise the King to be misericorditer justus.
The Act ordained that the trial of treasons in general should follow common law procedure, as before the reign of Edward VI.
He had full authority to continue the war or to make peace; to pardon all crimes and treasons at his pleasure, and to determine all his own appointments.
It is now full two hundred and forty years since treasons were defined, and so long has it been since any man was touched to this extent upon this crime before myself.
His condemnation and death were regarded as certain; but on being brought to the bar he adroitly pleaded that the recent statute abolishing all treasons since the reign of Edward III.
In some unknown way James separated Albany from his confederates Atholl, Buchan, and Angus; Albany went to England, betrayed the Castle of Dunbar to England, and was only checked in his treasons by the death of Edward IV.
Neverthelesse the fire of theire treasons wch thei had covered was so greate, as it did newly burst out mo flames.
His chief accomplishment, it seems, was playing the piano like an angel, which left me cold, while it drew tuneful flies into his web of treasons and stratagems.
There must be a High Court of Wit, and a Bench of Peers in that estate of the realm, or ever these treasons could be brought to trial.
For in love, those that once break the rules and laws of that deity, set no bounds to their treasons and disobedience.
His repeated and unsuccessful treasonsat length provoked the indignation of the Gothic king; and the sentence of death, which he pronounced with apparent reluctance, was privately executed in the tower of Seville.
So much did the traitors fear lest their treasonsand the wrongs they had done unto the good Lord Abbat should become known to the good folk of Ely town, and through them to the warriors in the Camp of Refuge.
One of the treasons alleged against me, is collusion with you.
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