Here awaiting the gallows are none but the unfortunates who followed; those who had the honour to lead them go free.

It's a curious and instructive reversal of the usual way of these things.

Faith, it's an uncertain world entirely!" He laughed, and settled down into that spirit of scorn, wrapped in which he stepped later into the great hall of Taunton Castle to take his trial.

With him went Pitt and the yeoman Baynes.

The three of them were to be tried together, and their case was to open the proceedings of that ghastly day.
The hall, even to the galleries--thronged with spectators, most of whom were ladies--was hung in scarlet; a pleasant conceit, this, of the Lord Chief Justice's, who naturally enough preferred the colour that should reflect his own bloody mind.
At the upper end, on a raised dais, sat the Lords Commissioners, the five judges in their scarlet robes and heavy dark periwigs, Baron Jeffreys of Wem enthroned in the middle place.
The prisoners filed in under guard.