I turned into my room, freezing with horror, and clapt my door.
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It was their habit to begin quibbling the moment they clapt eyes upon each other.
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Me 'n Capt. Rand took to him from the first minute we clapt eyes on him.
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I've got one of the first 'AMS you ever clapt eyes on in the whole course of your memorable existence.
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And old Cheiron clapt his hands together, and beat his hoofs upon the ground, for wonder at that magic song.
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One peep below discovered to me three as big and strapping red rascals, gentlemen, as you ever clapt your eyes on!
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You be'ent pleased when I tell you it was clapt, nor you be'ent pleased when I tell you it was hissed.
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I clapt four reals in his hands, to let me ride two or three turns along the next street, where my mistress lived.
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The plot was discovered, Babington was arrested, and he and his co-conspirators were hung, drawn and quartered. The Jesuits accused Morgan of being the 'setter on' of Gilbert Gifford and had him 'clapt close prisoner in a miserable dungeon called the Truerenborche' where he remained until the death of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma in December 1593. Thomas Morgan, escaping extradition and a dreadful fate, was thrown into the Bastille and then in another prison in Flanders before finally being set free in 1593.
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Levett, according to testimony, had "clapt his Hand upon the Deponent's Mouth," and the Clerk "Blubbered" to the bemusement of the congregation. Three years passed before Levett again stirred up controversy. A candidate for coroner and Town Clerk, Levett was accused of wearing white roses on 10 June, as well as drinking toasts to the Pretender "with other Gentlemen who were reconned the Jacobites of the Town."The reason for Levett's sympathies for the Scottish cause are unclear, although Lichfield was a hotbed of Jacobite sentiment at the time.
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John Poynet considered that Paget and Mason had treacherously arranged the arrest, causing them to be "taken by the Provost Marshall, spoiled of their horses, and clapt into a cart, their legs, arms, and bodies tyed with halters to the body of the cart, and so carried to the sea-side, and from thence into the Tower of London."John Ponet, A shorte treatise of politike pouuer: and of the true obedience which subiectes owe to kynges and other ciuile gouernours, with an exhortacion to all true naturall Englishe men, compyled by. D.I.P.B.R.W. (Heirs of W. Köpfel, Strasbourg 1556), quoted in Bernard et al., 'Cheke (Sir John)', at pp. 202-03.
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This followed his September 1607 resignation from the postmaster position, about the time that the congregation had decided to follow the Smyth party to Amsterdam. Scrooby member William Bradford of Austerfield kept a journal of the congregation's events which was eventually published as Of Plymouth Plantation. He wrote concerning this time period: > But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable > condition, but were hunted & persecuted on every side, so as their former > afflictions were but as flea-bitings in comparison of these which now came > upon them. For some were taken & clapt up in prison, others had their houses > besett & watcht night and day, & hardly escaped their hands; and the most > were faine to flie & leave their howses & habitations, and the means of > their livelehood.
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Russell was Edward Low's quartermaster in June 1722 when they captured a series of vessels off Shelburne, Nova Scotia, near Cape Sable. Among the sailors was Philip Ashton, whom Low forced to join his crew despite Ashton's pleas and his refusal to sign Low's articles. A few days later Low permitted two boys to take a small boat ashore to retrieve his dog; the boys ran away and an infuriated Russell accused Ashton of complicity in their escape, nearly killing Ashton several times: > I was forced to tell him, I knew not of their design; and indeed I did not, > tho' I had good reason to supect what would be the event of their going. > This did not pacifie the Quarter-Master, who with outragious Cursing and > Swearing clapt his Pistol to my Head, and snap'd it; but it miss'd Fire: > this enraged him the more; and he repeated the snapping of his Pistol at my > Head three times, and it as often miss'd Fire; upon which he held it over- > board, and snap'd it the fourth time, and then it went off very readily.
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