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When Elizabeth died and James I, who hated tobacco and feared Spain, succeeded her, Ralegh was left in a dangerous spot. Spain wanted his head, and James was more than willing to comply. On a cooked-up charge of treason, Ralegh was tried and condemned to death. On the eve of execution he wrote his famed farewell to his wife: "First. I send you all the thanks my heart can conceive, or my pen express, for your many troubles and cares taken for me. which-though they have not .taken effect as you wished-yet my debt...
...King Edward cheerfully lent his Household Trumpeters to the old folk who ceremoniously assert every year that the "rightful" King is the descendant of beheaded Charles I's daughter Henrietta. Current pretender is Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.* This year the various Stuart societies postponed their technical treason two months out of consideration for the House of Windsor's bereavement...
...move undertaken in the past three years, through which anyone could feel threatened." In referring to the day on which he became Realmleader, Hitler cried: "Every honest German was ashamed at the time of my accession that at that time a certain international race [Jews] could openly propagate treason! I put a stop to that...
...brought in his bed to court at Charlestown, Va. (now Charles Town, W. Va.), to hear sentence passed. A New York Tribune reporter was nearby. "Brown sat up in bed, while the verdict was rendered." he telegraphed his paper. "The jury found him guilty of treason, advising and conspiring with slaves and others to rebel, and for murder in the first degree. Brown lay down quickly and said nothing. There was no demonstration of any kind." Recording John Brown's execution, the Tribune somewhat jauntily noted: "The old man was swung off at 11:15 precisely...
Although the witness finally became inextricably confused in his own testimony and was not asked to give evidence under oath, the Munich Court ended by sentencing naturalized U. S. Citizen Karl Nisselbeck to a jail term of two years for being "an accessory to attempted high treason" to Germany committed by "plotting" with two Germans. One of these two the court acquitted; the other was sentenced to nine months...