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"Most friendship is feigning / most loving mere folly," read one, from "As You Like It." Grandage cudgelled his brains to recall the speaker.
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In 1702 he was made fellow of Trinity ('of my own electing,' said Bentley). In 1708 he was involved in a private scandal, which led to his removal from the fellowship. He engaged in an intrigue with a married lady in Berkshire, and cudgelled her husband, who ill-treated his wife.
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John Strype relates that Squire preached his own wedding sermon, that he was unfaithful to his wife, and that Squire fabricated an affair she was having. Finding out about this, his father-in-law the bishop "cudgelled" him. Further, he ran up debts, and his estate was put into administration. John Squire was brought up by Theophilus Aylmer, son of the bishop.
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Breaking-wheel machine used to execute Matthias Klostermayr, Bavaria, 1772. In the Holy Roman Empire, the wheel was punishment reserved primarily for men convicted of aggravated murder (murder committed during another crime, or against a family member). Less severe offenders would be cudgelled "top down", with a lethal first blow to the neck. More heinous criminals were punished "bottom up", starting with the legs, and sometimes being beaten for hours.
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' I replied: 'Have mercy upon thy feeble subjects that thou mayest not be injured by a strong foe.' ::With a powerful arm and the strength of the wrist ::To break the five fingers of a poor man is sin. ::Let him be afraid who spares not the fallen ::Because if he falls no one will take hold of his hand. ::Whoever sows bad seed and expects good fruit ::Has cudgelled his brains for nought and begotten vain imaginations.
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After taking power in the city, Barbarossa then started to lay siege to El Peñón de Argel, the Spanish fortress at the entrance of the harbour. After 22 days enduring artillery fire, the Spanish under Governor Don Martin de Vargas finally surrendered on 29 May 1529, with only 25 men left and without having received help from the Spanish mainland. Vargas was cudgelled to death, the fortress was dismantled, and the stonework used to build a seawall using Christian slaves as manpower.
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Mackworth had accused Denbigh of panic in the face of a charge by a much weaker enemy force. Denbigh threatened to run him through with his sword or have him cudgelled to death.Johnstone, p. 269-70. He asserted that he would never again come to Shropshire until Mackworth and other hostile members were removed from the committee. Mackworth was subject to implicit criticism from Parliament: on 11 September the Committee of Both Kingdoms resolved to tell him that he should prioritise his work in Shropshire over his responsibilities at CoventryCalendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1644, 10 January 1644, p. 493.
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