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" In a chair, covered with oil-cloth, into which there would enter a sufficiency of air, without its being possible for any one to see or speak to him during the journey... "
The True History of the State Prisoner: Commonly Called the Iron Mask - Page 67
by George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) - 1827 - 352 pages
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The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. Sears

Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pages
...before, to take his prisoner with him. This was done by conveying him (to use St. Mars' own words) "in a chair covered with oil-cloth, into •which...possible for any one to see or speak to him during the journey—not even the soldiers whom I shall select to be near the chair." Effectually to prevent his...
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The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, Volume 30

1894 - 422 pages
...As before, he went first to prepare Lestang's prison, and, on June 20, 1687, he removed him to it " in a chair, covered with oil-cloth, into which there...sufficiency of air without its being possible for anyone to see or speak to him during the journey." Here ends the correspondence between SaintMars and...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 289

1900 - 638 pages
...Margaret. The greatest secrecy was always observed during the journey. Poor Mattheoli was "carried in a chair covered with oilcloth, into which there...sufficiency of air without its being possible for anyone to see or speak to him during the journey." During eleven long years he was confined in this...
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