| Thomas Smail - 1871 - Liczba stron: 96
...England — the recollection of which is still preserved in the following lines : — " I've often heard of Lydford law — • HOW, in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. " THE CASTLE. " Proud Castle I fancy still beholds thee stand, The curb, the guardian, of this Border... | |
| John Timbs - 1872 - Liczba stron: 598
...attempts to show that the above summary method of procedure originated from merciful motives : — " I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw. And sit in judgment after. At first I wondered at it much; But since I find the reason such As it deserves no laughter. " They... | |
| 1873 - Liczba stron: 838
...nearly a century elapsed ere their i A similar proverb in England of the same interpretation, is Lydford Law, derived from Lydford, a corporation in Devonshire,...Lydford Law, How in the morn they hang and draw, .And tit in judgment after." SeeWracoTT's manners were altogether assimilated to those of their countrymen.1... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - Liczba stron: 596
...the ' Jeddart justice' of Scotland, or the 'Lynch law' of America — ' I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ' — • was due, no doubt, to the summary and severe punishments of both forest and stannary courts.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - Liczba stron: 600
...' Jeddart justice ' of Scotland, or the ' Lynch law ' of America — ' I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ' — was due, no doubt, to the summary and severe punishments of both forest and stannary courts.... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - Liczba stron: 488
...It seems that the same irregular administration of justice was practiced at Lydford, in Devonshire , a burlesque copy of verses on this town begins —...morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." WESTCOTT'S History of Devonshire. My present country residence is in the immediate neighborhood of... | |
| 1921 - Liczba stron: 496
...trial; and the Jed wood justice, "hang in haste and try at leisure." Lydford law is thus aptly defined: "I oft have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after." But no matter how it may intertwine and commingle with the records of the mob family, and no matter... | |
| Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - Liczba stron: 512
...written by Mr Browne,2 and inserted in Mr Grose's Local Proverbs : — " I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the reason 's such, That it deserves no laughter.... | |
| Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt - 1874 - Liczba stron: 492
...written by Mr Browne,2 and inserted in Mr Grose's Local Proverbs ; — " I oft have heard of Lidford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after ; At first I wondered at it much, But since I find the reason 's such, That it deserves no laughter.... | |
| Richard Nicholls Worth - 1875 - Liczba stron: 216
...Prison, and quite deserved the character given to it. The date of this piece is probably 1644. OFT had heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after. At first I wondered at it much, And now I find their reason such, That it deserves no laughter. They... | |
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