 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1771 - 468 pages
...duke of Norfolk of having fpoken feditious words againft his majefty, in •a private converfation. ' Norfolk denied the charge ; gave Hereford the lie ; and offered to prove his innocence by fingle combat. As proofs were wanting for legal trial, the lords readily acquiefced in that mode of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1777 - 374 pages
...the duke of Norfolk of having fpoken feditious words againft his majefty in a private converfation. Norfolk denied the charge, gave Hereford the lie, and offered to prove his innocence by fingle combat. As proofs were wanting for legal trial, the lords readily acquiefced in that mode of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1789 - 344 pages
...the duke of Norfolk of having fpoken feditious words againft his majefty, in a private converfation. Norfolk denied the charge; gave Hereford the lie ; and offered to prove his innocence by (ingle combat. As proofs were wanting for legal trial,, the lords readily acquiefced in that mode of... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1789 - 606 pages
...liamcnt, 8 THE HISTORY QF PART I. liament of having fpoken " many flanderous words " of the king." Norfolk denied the charge ; gave; Hereford the lie, and offered to prove his innocence; by duel. The challenge was accepted; the time and place of the combat were appointed, and the whole nation... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 458 pages
...imputed to that prince an intention of fubverting and deftroying many of his principal nobility ". Norfolk denied the charge , gave Hereford the lie , and offered to prove his own innocence by duel. The challenge was accepted : The time and place of combat were appointed: be... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...the Duke of Norfolk of having fpoken feditious words againft his majefty in a private converfation. Norfolk denied the charge, gave Hereford the lie, and offered to prove his innocence by fingle combat. The challenge was accepted ; but on the day appointed for the duel, the king would not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1797 - 414 pages
...accufedthe duke of Norfolk of having fpoken feditious words againft his majefty in a private converfuion. Norfolk denied the charge, gave Hereford the lie, and offered to prove his innocence by fingle combat. As proofs were wanting for legal trial, the lords readily acquiefced in that mode of... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 512 pages
...duke of Norfolk in parliament of having spoken " many slanderous words of the king." Norfolk AD 1398 denied the charge : gave Hereford the lie, and offered to prove his innocence by duel. The challenge was accepted ; the time and place of the combat were appointed, and the whole nation... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 396 pages
...the duke of Norfolk of having fpoken feditious words againft his majefty in a private converfation. Norfolk denied the charge, gave Hereford the lie, and offered to prove his innocence by fingle combat. As proofs were wanting forlegal trial, the lords readily acquiefced in that mode of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1806 - 346 pages
...set his subjects against him, it was ac- • cident that gave occasion for his -overthrow. The duke of Hereford appeared in parliament, and accused the...determination : the time and place were appointed ; and the/whole nation waited with anxious suspence for the event. At length the day arrived on which this... | |
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The Duke of Hereford appeared in parliament, and accused the Duke of Norfolk of having spoken seditious words against his majesty in a private conversation. Norfolk denied the charge, gave Hereford the lie, and offered to prove his innocence by single... 
