 | American essays - 1895 - 896 pages
...locked up without meat, fire, drink, or tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We shall have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it." They finally brought in a verdict of " not guilty," and each man was lined forty marks, and imprisoned... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1849 - 340 pages
...; " I thought you had understood your place better." "We will have a verdict," said the Recorder, " by the help of God, or you shall starve for it." " You are Englishmen," said Penn, looking upon the Jury ; " mind your privilege, give not away your right." The Jury were... | |
 | Alfred H. Knight - Law - 1998 - 294 pages
...shall be locked up, without meat, drink, fire or tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict by the help of God or you shall starve for it. According to Penn, the following stirring colloquy occurred as the jurors were being dragged off to... | |
 | Uwe Böker, Julie A. Hibbard - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...that the Court will accept; and you shall be lockt up, without Meat, Drink, Fire, and Tobacco; [...] we will have a Verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it' 1316). And again, as the Observer remarked, the 'Court swore several Persons, to keep the Jury all... | |
 | Gwenyth Swain - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 72 pages
...that the court will accept; and you shall be locked up, without meat, drink, fire and tobacco.. .. [W]e will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it." Court officials in the 1600s often told juries how they should rule in cases. Sometimes they locked... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 465 pages
...spoken at a Quaker meeting, the recorder, not satisfied with the first verdict, said to the jury : " We will have a verdict by the help of God, or you shall starve for it." " You are Englishmen," said Penn; "mind your privileges, give not away your right." At last the jury, after two days and two... | |
 | Carl Reader - Society of Friends - 2005 - 136 pages
...shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it." This was intolerable. "My jury, who are my judges, ought not to be thus menaced," I shouted at the... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...must form. If the first be the case, you ought to locked up without meat, drink, fire, and tobacco : we will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you stall starve for it. h But I have presumed the court to be well disposed. If they really are so, their... | |
 | Julius J. Marke, Richard Sloane, Linda M. Ryan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 1218 pages
...shall be locked up, without meat, drink, fire and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict by the help of God or you shall starve for it". Penn objected: "My jury, who are my judges, ought not to be thus menaced. Their verdict should be free... | |
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Gentlemen, you shall not be dismissed till we have a verdict that the court will accept, and you shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire, and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you... 
