Thank God, I am clamour proof." When she was gone, her father again insisted on what he conceived to be his right.

"I ask" he said, "only the benefit of the law." "And, by the grace of God, you shall have it," said the judge.
"Mr.Sheriff, see that execution be done on Friday next.

There is the benefit of the law for you." On the following Friday, Armstrong was hanged, drawn and quartered; and his head was placed over Westminster Hall, [559] The insolence and cruelty of Jeffreys excite, even at the distance of so many years, an indignation which makes it difficult to be just to him.
Yet a perfectly dispassionate inquirer may perhaps think it by no means clear that the award of execution was illegal.

There was no precedent; and the words of the Act of Edward the Sixth may, without any straining, be construed as the Court construed them.

Indeed, had the penalty been only fine or imprisonment, nobody would have seen any thing reprehensible in the proceeding.