 | Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman - 1921 - 290 páginas
...declared, ' because they are beasts of the chase ; but it was never accounted either cruel or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, as they can be found, because they are beasts of prey.' Under such an Act, and supported by such arguments Straff ord was executed.... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1923 - 492 páginas
...Commons. St. John, in bringing it before the Lords, observed that "it was never accounted cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, as they...powlcats and other vermin for preservation of the warren. "J Against this new procedure Strafiord again made a brilliant and affecting defence — " the best... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1924 - 758 páginas
...hares and deers because they be beasts of the chase ; it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, as they can be found, because these be beasts of prey," St. John's argument before the House of Lords on the bill of attainder 3 ST 1509. •Sir John Bramston... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1925 - 496 páginas
...Commons. St. John, in bringing it before the Lords, observed that " it was never accounted cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, as they...powlcats and other vermin for preservation of the warren."J Against this new procedure Strafford again made a brilliant and affecting defence — " the... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - 1928 - 376 páginas
...attainder of Strafford, instead of trying him by law: "It was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey." It was a coarse doctrine which suited the Puritan faith of the Semitic Old... | |
 | John William Allen - 1644 - 700 páginas
...law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase; but it was never accounted cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey.' As Clarendon remarked, his law and his humanity were alike. To say that the... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 328 páginas
...hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase; but it was never accounted either cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey." (Ill, 140.) The king's friends were of uncertain loyalty and many of his ministers... | |
 | William Palmer - 1993 - 172 páginas
...to hares and deeres, because they be beasts of chase; it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they...and other vermin, for preservation of the warren. 78 Moreover, said St. John, Strafford was well aware that he had "offended the law" and that he should... | |
 | Yvonne Bruce - 2005 - 296 páginas
...to Hares and Deeres, because they be beasts of Chase; It was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock Foxes and Wolves on the head, as they...prey: The Warrener sets traps for Powlcats and other Vermine, for perservation of the Warren. . . . Errors in great things, as Warre and Marriage, they... | |
 | Emma Griffin - 2007 - 308 páginas
...to hares and deer, because they are beasts of chase; it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they are beasts of prey. (Oliver St John, 1641)' The qualifications for hunting game had been set so... | |
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It is true we give law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase : it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because these be beasts of prey. 
