The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

la id in folds on either side. A very fine f;
Greet resolution declaring that ''the
sheriffs then tried an appeal to the Com
mons, who on December % resolved that
this house is content that the sheriffs of
London and Middlesex do execute Will
liam, late Vlscount Stafford. by severing
his head from his body only
Accordingly on the, morning of the
Goth, the sheriffs, with quite a company
hours of 0 and 10 o'clock in the morn:
ing, to the gates of London tower. and
there demanded the body of William
Howard, late Viscount Stafford. For
some reason the lieutenant of the tower
conceived that it would be an abrogation
prisoner at the gates. and he sent back
answer that he would presently deliver
up Stafford at the inner bars. At this
Slingsby Bethel and Henry Cornish
We're much offended and holly declared
that they must preserve the liberties and
bounds of the city. After a deal of
wrangling q! compromise was effected,
ifs between the gates and the bars.
Two Noted Sheriff..
These sheriffs. Henry Cornish and
Slingsby Bethel, were prominent in more
ways than one lin those unhappy times
A pamphlet published at London by
Richard Baldwin. in 1851. bears the title
Truth indicated; or a Detection of the
Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby,
Justices, and Slingsby Bethel and Hen
ry Cornish, esquirs, Sheriffs Of the City
Of London, in a paper published i'll the
name Of DR.. Francis Hawkins, Minister
Of the Tower. instituted, The confessions
of Edward Fitzharris, Esq. etc. Both
implication in riot at Guldhall.
On the scaffold Stafford behaved with
dignity and fortitude. Il beseech God
not to revenge my innocent blood upon
the nation" he said. Il do with my
last breath truly assert my innocency."
He, had prepared a written address.
which he read from the scaffold. and at
its conclusion he handed a copy to
Slingsby Bethel to. be delivered to the
King. He was beheaded. and his body
was buried on Tower hill 4 bill for
reversal Of the attainder Of Lord Stat
ford. on the ground that it was now an
parent that he had died innocent, was in
troduced in Parliament and was passed
to second reading on June II. 1856.
Before it came up again, however. Par
lament adjourned. to meet for only one
brief session during the remainder of
James reign, and the bill was not heard
Of again.
OF the score of persons whom Oates
sent to death by bearing false witness.
Christian humility that the King. "out
OF his princely clemency and compass
sion." ordered the sheriff of Middlesex
to deliver up his body to his friends after
the execution: for private burial. The
friends caused masses to be said and ap-
pointed Friday. November 20. 1878. as
followed the corpse to St. Paul's church.
Covent garden. where the burial was.
and the King was so angered By what
he deemed an abuse of his clemency, that
he ordered the body dug up. the quarters
set on the gates Of the city of London
and the head OH London bridge.
Langhoru's Lament.
Another victim was Richard Langhorn,
| a Jesuit, who was tried in 1870. and who
was alleged by Oates to have consecrated
both the man and the dagger intended
for the murder of the King While in
prison. under sentence, of death. he
wrote some verses entitled. The Affec-
Against Me in Court of Justice. Upon
the Evidence Of a False Witness" Fol
lowing is the first Of these extraordinary
verses:
1t is told me l must die,
ANONYMOUSLY.
/ By the hand Of the executioner:
0. happy news:
I see, myself honored with the livery of
Jesus.
receive the judgment Of death,
AS an enemy to Caesar:
AS designing the death of my king,
And depriving him Of his crown.
His government.
In the other verses Langhorn comfort
ed himself by noting the particulars in
which his death resembled that of the
| Savior. OF Pickering, who was desig-
| mated by Oates as one of the chosen as
saSslns OF the King, a chronicler of that
day wrote that he went to death with
countenance not only calm, sweet and
serene. but ever cheerful. smiling and
pleased
Oates Sentence.
Charles Lamb has pictured Titus
Oates roasting around the birthstone
| hres IN company with Bedloe and Juda ;.
1t IS certain that before he departed this
HE ne was given a fcretaste of inferna!
pangs, for it was his fate to receive sem
tence at the hands of that judicial ogre.
chancellor Jefreys. He was brought Ii,
trial for perjury. in May, 1885, and it
was proven, among other things, that he
was at st. Omer's on the oath of April,
? 1913, when he swore he was at the
! White Horse tavern, in the Strand.
| where he said Pickering, Grove, Irelar,l
and other Jesuits signed the death war
| rant Of Charles II. He received frou,
/ Lord JeHreyS q sentence worse thar,