"Favel" Quotes from Famous Books
... that which furnished O'Brien with an opportunity for his delinquent oratory. When the jury returned into court they were asked if they had agreed in their verdict; the foreman replied, "We are not, my lord." Mr. Favel, one of the jurors, remarked, "We are all agreed but one, and he is a Roman Catholic." The report of this trial produced a very great sensation in England. Men everywhere remarked, "If a single Roman Catholic on a jury ... — The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan |