Crossword-Solution: ACQUITS 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

XXX His hand, too quick to execute his wrath, Performed all, as pleased his eye and heart, At head and breast oft times he strucken hath, Now at the right, now at the other part: On every side thus did he harm and scath, And oft beguile his sight with nimble art, That no defence the prince of wounds acquits, Where least he thinks, or fears, there most he hits.

The man himself, as a "harbourer of a conventicle," would also run no small danger of the same fate, but Bunyan generously acquits him of any selfish object in his warning: "he was, I think, more afraid of (for) me, than of (for) himself." The matter was clear enough to Bunyan.

Now death or conquest! If the first happen, fate acquits my promise; If we o'ercome, the conqueror is yours.

When Darnley is killed, a mock investigation acquits Bothwell, and Mary loads him with honours and rewards.

Sevier himself later wrote with considerable bitterness: "I have been faithfull, and my own breast acquits myself that I have acted no part but what has been Consistent with honor and justice, tempered with Clemency and mercy.