This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...the warrant for his execution; and two days later Thomas Wentworth paid for the perversion of those great talents (of which, in the words of Lord Digby, "God had given him the use and the Devil the application") by a death upon the scaffold. 1 Sidney Papers, vol. ii. The Earl's evidence was to the effect that Strafford ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...the warrant for his execution; and two days later Thomas Wentworth paid for the perversion of those great talents (of which, in the words of Lord Digby, "God had given him the use and the Devil the application") by a death upon the scaffold. 1 Sidney Papers, vol. ii. The Earl's evidence was to the effect that Strafford had declared Charles "absolved from all rules of government, and... acquitted before God and man for whatever measures he thought fit to adopt for the preservation of his crown and people."--Gardiner; History of England. There was one person, at least, whom the desertion of Strafford by his perjured King changed from an ardent supporter of royal prerogative into one of the Lady 'Crown's bitterest enemies. This was Northum"sttaffd's berland's sister, Lucy, Countess of Carlisle. We dearest have seen the younger and fairer daughter of the fncnd. "Wizard Earl" married under somewhat romantic circumstances to her lover, Lord Hay, and subsequently taking her place as the beauty par excellence of the Court. It is not so much with Hay's name, however, as with that of Wentworth that the memory of Lucy Percy is linked by history. She is best known as "Strafford's mistress"--not his "mistress," it is believed, in the sense that her aunt was the mistress of Sir Philip Sidney and Mountjoy, or her grandmother of Leicester; but rather his warm personal friend, admirer, and confidante. None of Strafford's opponents, not even the most virulent, went so far as to assert that the bond between him and Lady Carlisle was aught but platonic. They first met before Wentworth went to Ireland in 1633, and the rapidity with which their acquaintance ripened into regard may be judged from the frequent allusions made b...
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