LAUD (William, Archbishop of Canterbury and favorite minister of Charles I.), 1573-1645. "_Lord, receive my soul_," spoken to the headsman as a signal to strike. According to some authorities his last words were: "I am coming, O! Lord, as quickly as I can. I know I must pass through death before I can come to Thee, but it is only a mere shadow--a little darkness upon nature. Thou hast broken the jaws of death." Laud was declared guilty of treason, and executed on Tower Hill, January 10, 1645. LAURENTIUS ("Saint," a deacon of Rome who was roasted alive on a gridiron before a slow fire), about A. D. 258. "_Assatus est; jam versa et manduca_" (I am roasted,--now turn me, and eat me.) According to some authorities he said later: "I thank thee, O my God and Saviour, that I have been found worthy to enter into thy beatitude." LEE (Robert Edmund, distinguished Confederate general, and President of Washington College, at Lexington, Virginia), 1806-1870. "_Tell Hill he must come up._" During his last hours his mind wandered, and he was living over again in his disordered imagination the military campaign through which he had passed. His body lies in the mausoleum erected at the rear of the College chapel, and beside him are laid his wife and his daughter Agnes. Above the tomb, and visible from the chapel hall, is Valentine's recumbent marble figure of Lee the soldier taking his rest, with his sword sheathed at his side and his martial cloak around him.--_White._ LEO X. (Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, elected Pope March 11, 1513), 1475-1521. "_I have been murdered; no remedy can prevent my speedy death._" It is believed that he was poisoned. The circumstances attending the death of the pontiff are involved in mysterious and total obscurity, and the accounts given of this event by Varillas and similar writers in subsequent times, are the spurious offspring of their own imagination. _Roscoe "Life of Leo the Tenth."_ Leo X. expired upon the 1st day of December, 1521. The vacillating game he played in European politics had just been crowned with momentary success. Some folk believed that the Pope died of joy after hearing that his Imperial allies had entered the town of Milan; others thought that he succumbed to poison. We do not know what caused his death. But the unsoundness of his constitution, overtaxed by dissipation and generous living, in the midst of public cares for which the man had hardly nerve enough, may suffice to account for a decease certainly sudden and premature. _Symond: "Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti."_ LIEBER (Francis, German author, political refugee, and, later, Professor of History and Political Science in Columbia College, New York), 1800-1872.