 | Samuel Bannister Harding - 1905 - 684 pages
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were, . . . This state of affairs lasted the nineteen years that Stephen was king, and ever grew worse and... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1906 - 408 pages
...with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tortured as they were. They hung up some by the feet and smoked them with foul smoke, some by their...thumbs or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads and twisted it until it went into the brain.... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 pages
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs...these were. They hung some up by their feet and smoked The oppresthem with foul smoke, some by their thumbs or by the head ; 5ion of *he and they hung burning... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding, William Fletcher Harding - 1909 - 402 pages
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were. I can not, and I may not, tell of all the tortures that they inflicted upon the wretched men of this... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1910 - 430 pages
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs...thumbs or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads, and twisted it till it went into the brain.... | |
 | Henry Shaw Perris - 1913 - 348 pages
...women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable. They hung some up by their feet and smoked them with...thumbs, or by the head, and they hung burning things on to their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads, and twisted it till it went into the brain.... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - 1913 - 810 pages
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were." The struggle for the crown ended with a treaty by which Stephen recognized Matilda's son, Henry of... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1915 - 292 pages
...seizing both men and women, "and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, " and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never "were any martyrs tormented as these were." 1 The advent of a strong king helped to bring this anarchy to an end in England; but in the north of... | |
 | Allen Rogers Benham - 1916 - 674 pages
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs...thumbs, or by the head, and they hung burning things on their feet. They put a knotted string about their heads and twisted it till it went into the brain.... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - 1918 - 842 pages
...day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were." The struggle for the crown ended with a treaty by which Stephen recognized Matilda's son, Henry of... | |
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... they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable,... 
