Identifier: lifedeathbeingau00lewi (find matches)
Title: Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lewin, Thomas Herbert, 1839-1916
Subjects: Death Portraits Celebrities
Publisher: London : Constable and Co. Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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en saydhe, an hour hence I shall depart. He then turned his head to the otherside and expired. In his will he left orders to have his white horse, which heloved, to be well fed and carefully looked after as long as it should live. Ihave seen him several times with Sir John Danvers; he was a black man. InBrecknockshire, about three miles from Brecknock, is a village called Penkelly,(Anglice: Hazelwood) where is a little castle. It is an ancient seat of theHerberts. Mr. Herbert of this place, came by the mothers side of Wigan.The Lord Cherburys ancestor came by the second venter, who was a millersdaughter. The greatest part of the estate was settled on the issue by thesecond venter, viz.: Montgomery Castle and Aberystwith. Upon this matchwith the millers daughter are to this day recited or sung by the Welsh theseverses, to this sense in English: O God! Woe is me miserable!My father was a millerAnd my mother a milleresse,And I am now a ladie! Authority: Aubreys Lives of Eminent I\Ien. 79
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No. 37 The Death of Arthur, Lord Capel. Born 1610. Died 1649. A RTHUR, LORD CAPEL brought before a High Court of Justice(as it was called), having offered brave arguments from the law? ofthe land, the government of the nation, the nullity of their Court,the benefit of his Peerage, and the law that governed the world, meaningthat he was promised quarter for his life; heard his sentence with a noblespirit, telling the judges that they needed not to have used such formalitiesin order to murder him. On March gth, the day appointed for his execution,he wrote to his Lady wife That, as she had always hearkened to his advice,so she would then for his sake, and for his dear childrens sake, especially tomoderate her sorrows and apprehensions for him. I beseech thee, hewrote, take care of thy health, sorrow not unusually but preserve thyself forthe benefit of our dear children, to whom the occasion of my death will be asmuch honour as my death itself is now sadness. He kept himself in a verychee

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