#house of douglas

[scotlandsladies]

The proof in this trial [of Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis on 17 July 1537] is also awanting on record; but a version of the address which the lady is said to have delivered in her own defence is given by some writers as follows:-

“Those who hate the merit of my brother are enraged because he is not in their power, that he might fall a sacrifice to their malice, and they now discharge their spite upon me because of my near relation to him; and, to gratify their revenge with my blood, they accused me of crimes, which, if true, deserved the severest death. But, seeing it is the only prerogative of God to punish men or women for the faults of others, which belongs to no Judge on earth, who are obliged to punish ever one according in their personal crimes, you ought not to punish in me the actions of my brother, how blameable soever. Above all, you ought to consider if those things I am accused of have the least appearance of truth imaginable; for what gives the greatest evidence either of guilt or innocence of an impeached person is their former life. What fault could any hitherto lay to my charge? Did any ever reproach me with anything that is scandalous? Examine, I entreat you, my former conversation; vice hath its degree as well as virtue, and none can attain to a perfection in either, except by long use and practice; and if you can find nothing reprovable in my conduct, how can ye believe that I am arrived all of a sudden to contrive this murder, which is the very height and perfection of impiety? I protest I would not deliberately injure the most despicable wretch alive. Could I then make the murder of my Sovereign, whom I always reverenced, and who never did me any wrong, the first essay of my wickedness? None are capable of such damnable unnatural actions, except two sorts of persons – those of desperate fortunes who are weary of their lives, or those who are hurried into them by revenge. My birth and manner of life put me beyond suspicion of the first kind; and for the latter, seeing I was never injured by the King, how can I be suspected to thirst for any revenge? I am here accused for purposing to kill the King, and to make my pretended crime appear more frightful, it is given out that the way was to be by poison. With what impudence can any accuse me of such wickedness, who never saw any poison, nor know I anything about the preparation of it? Can any say they ever saw me have any of it? Let them tell me where I bought it, or who procured it me. And though I had it, how could I use it, seeing I never came near the King’s person, his table, nor palace? It is well known that since my last marriage with this unfortunate gentleman I had lived in the country at a great distance from the Court. What opportunity could I have, then, to poison the King? “You may see by those circumstances, which give great light in such matters, that I am entirely innocent of those crimes I am charged with. It is the office of you, Judges, to protect injured innocence. But if the malice and power of my enemies be such that, whether innocent or guilty I must needs be condemned, I shall die cheerfully, having the testimony of a good conscience. And assure yourselves that you shall certainly find it more easy to take away my life than to blast my reputation, or to fix any real blot upon my memory. “This is my last desire of you, that I may be the sole object of your severity, and that those other innocent persons may not share in my misfortunes. Seeing that my chief crime is that I am descended of the family of Douglas, there is no reason that they should be involved in my ruin; for my husband, son, and cousin were neither of that name nor family. I shall end my life with more comfort if you absolve them; for the more of us that suffer by your unjust sentence, the greater will be your guilt, and the more terrible your condemnation when you shall be tried at the great day by God, who is the impartial Judge of all flesh, who shall then make you suffer for those torments to which we are unjustly condemned.”

This speech is probably apocryphal, though Lady Glamis may have spoken somewhat in this strain. All defence, however, proved unavailing. Drummond of Hawthornden says that, before a verdict was given, “some of the Judges would have referred her to the King’s clemency till a farther trial of the witnesses might be had, upon whose testimony the process did depend, it being a safer way in judgment to absolve the guilty than condemn the innocent. But the most part gave her over to the Assizers, the better part of which being in voices fewer, the greater, who neither respecting conscience within them, nor shamed with the present age and posterity, nor the supreme justice of Heaven, find this poor lady guilty.” The French authority states that now two of the Judges repaired to the King’s presence and entreated for delay, but he, counselled by the accuser, William Lyon, gave an absolute refusal, telling them that the law must take its course, And so it did. The lady being found guilty of the “treasonable crimes” in the two points of her dittay, sentence was pronounced that she “has forfaulted to our Sovereign Lord her life, her lands, goods moveable and unmoveable; and that she shall be had to the Castlehill of Edinburgh, and there burned in a fire to death as a traitor.” And this the Doomster (the common executioner), as was the custom of the Court, laying his hands on her head, “gave for doom.” We may note that there was no exceptional barbarity in this sentence of burning alive, it being the legal practice in Scotland that women convicted of the higher crimes were burned at the stake, and for lesser offences drowned.

The sentence was carried out on the same day, and the lady was conducted from the bar to the pyre of faggots on the hill without much pause. “A little time after the sentence,” says the French writer, “she was delivered into the hands of the executioner, to be led out to suffer. The constancy and courage of this heroine are almost incredible, which astonished all the spectators. She heard the sentence pronounced against her without the least sign of concern, neither did she cry, groan, or shed a tear, though that kind of death is most frightful to human nature. When she was brought out to suffer, the people who looked on could not conceal their grief and compassion. Some of them who were acquainted with her, and knew her innocence, designed to rescue her; but the presence of the King and his Ministers” – it should be, the presence of the King’s Guards – “restrained them. She seemed to be the only unconcerned person there, and her beauty and charms never appeared with greater advantage than when she was led to the flames; and her soul being fortified with support from Heaven, and the sense of her own innocence, she outbraved death, and her courage was equal in the fire to what it was before her judges. She suffered those torments without the least noise: only she prayed devoutly for Divine assistance to support her under her sufferings. Thus died this famous lady, with a courage not inferior to that of any of the heroes of antiquity.”

— ‘Heroines of Scotland’ by R. S. Fittis (1889)

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[neurodihuegent]

willow's dads are huntlow shippers, confirmed!

[baconpncakes]

House is so funny. Whenever he can't be with Wilson he just finds the nearest manlet who can tolerate him and they become temporary boy best friends

Patterns of Behavior

[iced-flower-pot]

Ghosts BBC / 04.04 - Gone Gone

Clearly i'm doing ok :'')

[proxylynn]

Which of the yan boys has the biggest boobs? XD

Lynn: Oh! Tough call. Jack is our OG chiseled chest.

Jack: Aww shucks.

Lynn: Douglas is also a very fine contender to the big-breasted boys.

Douglas: Sweet thing...*blushing*

Lynn: Then we have Tate, whose massive mounds are a godsend.

Tate: Heh heh, hell yeah!

Lynn: Then there's Bo, who's best boy of beefy bods.

Bo: Oh, I'm a very good boy.

Lynn: But none come close to the one, the only...Doe.

Jack/Douglas/Tate/Bo: What?!

Doe: *can make his chest any size and make his body any shape*

[neanderthal-pessimist]

house md 6x07 this scene is actually crazy ass akward. really giving cuddy is dating her ex husband friend and is introducing him to her ex husband and his new husband.

[vintagehomecollection]

The floor plan evolved around an arroyo. The “bridge” shown here spans the fragile chasm, connecting the bedrooms to the living spaces. As elsewhere in the Wallach house, the Douglas fir ceiling flows uninterruptedly through the glass, merging indoors with outdoors.

The Naturally Elegant Home, 1992

[msb3hav3]

Here’s another Adam Driver hand-thirst post no one asked for.

*throws through window and runs away*

[preacherboyd]

House M.D. | 5x02 Not Cancer

[bbcghostsupdates]

Ghosts Book news!!

Ghosts: The Button House Archives has been nominated for a British Book Award for Book of the year: Non-Fiction: Lifestyle & Illustrated 🤍👻

Huge congratulations to the whole team who worked on the book and has helped with it we wish the team the best of luck in May when the winners are announced 🫶🏻

[bawdiestrhymester]

This photo looks like a Button House modern day AU.

[i-like-what-this-says-about-you]

the most bi4bi couple i’ve ever seen

[weirdlookindog]

The Old Dark House (1932)

[twoplayer-game]

it was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater!!!!!

(redraw of a drawing i did a whiiileee back)

[veeraine]

just remembered thomas thorne isn’t real! the horrors are endless! the suffering is unbearable!