attainting

In the first, Cardinal Wolsey contrives the attainting of his enemy, the Duke of Buckingham.

William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922

In 1585 he sat as a peer in Perrot's Parliament, assenting to the attainting of the Earl of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

President, by two unconstitutional bills, one attainting the whole people of the South, and the other aimed at the authority of the

France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861

An act for attainting Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Grogan, against which Curran, taking "his instructions from the grave," pleaded at the bar of the

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

An act for attainting Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Mr. Harvey, and Mr. Grogan, against which Curran, taking "his instructions from the grave," pleaded at the bar of the

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

Gospel leaned to the side of mercy, and gave the children the benefit of the believing parent's faith, instead of attainting them through the heathen parent.

Bertha and Her Baptism Nehemiah Adams 1842

The House of Commons did not dare to trust the trial of the king to the Peers, according to the provisions of the English Constitution, and so they passed an ordinance for attainting him of high treason, and for appointing _commissioners_, themselves, to try him.

Charles I Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

This was considered as the consequence of the _attainting_ of the blood, which rendered it corrupt, and incapable of transmitting an inheritance.

Charles I Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

He reminded the Lords Triers, in very significant language, that Delamere had, in Parliament, objected to the bill for attainting Monmouth, a fact which was not, and could not be, in evidence.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

The very next entry is -- "A Bill for the attainting certain persons of high treason, was read the first time."

Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829