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AS SLAVE FOR LIFE
KING'S ORDER EXILES HIM TO BARBADOES
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Irish Physician Defiant When Jeffreys Gives Sentence BY RAFAEL SABATINI
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London, September 19. 1685. — cian, who was arrested and accused of my Lord Gildoy after tiie l)attl miah Pitt and Andrew Baynes, w freys, Chief Justice, yesterday.
Lord Jeffreys condemned them to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The King's clemency saved them and they are to be shipped to the Barbadoes as slaves.
The trial was an intensely dramatic one. Lord Jeffreys was most bitter in his denunciation of the prisoners.
"Jesus God! That ever we should iiave a generation of vipers among us," he burst out in rhetorical frenzy.
Peter Blood was so amazed by his methods of bullying the jury into bloodshed that he almost forgot tliat his own life was at stake. He laughed and his laugh jarred uncannily upon the deathly stillness of the court.
"Do you laugh, sirrah, whh the rope about your neck?"
"Faith, it 's in better case I am for mirth than your lordshii). 1. being a physician, may
Peter Blood, the young Irish physiof treason while treating the wounds e of Oglethorpe's Farm, with Jereas placed on trial before Lord Jei
speak with knowledge of what is to come to your lordship. The death to which you doom me is a light pleasantry by contrast with the death to which your lordship lias ncen doomed by that Great Judge with whose name your lordship makes so free."
The Lord Chief Justice sat stiffly upright, his face ashen, his lips twitching. The scarlet figure lost its rigidity and bent forward. In a muted voice and briefly he delivered sentence of death. Having delivered it, he sank back exhausted, his brow agleam with sweat.
Thus it happened that Peter Blood and with him Jeremiah Pitt and Andrew Baynes were conveyed to Bristol and there shipped with some fifty others aboard the Jamaica Merchant, bound for Carlisle Bay, Barbadoes.
KERRIGAN as Peter Blood
^ David Smith Production