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+ Edward Hall ( d . 1547 ) was a lawyer , and ultimately became one of the judges of the Sheriff's Court . His History of the " Union of the ; Noble and illustre families of Lancastre and Yorke " brings the plied him with material which ...
+ Edward Hall ( d . 1547 ) was a lawyer , and ultimately became one of the judges of the Sheriff's Court . His History of the " Union of the ; Noble and illustre families of Lancastre and Yorke " brings the plied him with material which ...
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He has also drawn some few matters from Sir Thomas More's1 “ History of the Life and Death of King Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III . " Bacon must also have made some use of the manuscript treasures of Sir Robert Cotton ...
He has also drawn some few matters from Sir Thomas More's1 “ History of the Life and Death of King Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III . " Bacon must also have made some use of the manuscript treasures of Sir Robert Cotton ...
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Prince Edward born Ralph Wilford hanged Treaty with Scotland ( containing arrangements about letters commendatory ) Fox commissioned to treat of a marriage with Scotland , King James with Princess Margaret Perkin Warbeck executed at ...
Prince Edward born Ralph Wilford hanged Treaty with Scotland ( containing arrangements about letters commendatory ) Fox commissioned to treat of a marriage with Scotland , King James with Princess Margaret Perkin Warbeck executed at ...
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... looked back upon his 20 former proceedings , that even in the time of King Edward his brother he was not without secret trains and mines to turn envy and hatred upon his brother's government ; as having an expectation and a kind of ...
... looked back upon his 20 former proceedings , that even in the time of King Edward his brother he was not without secret trains and mines to turn envy and hatred upon his brother's government ; as having an expectation and a kind of ...
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The first of these was 25 fairest , and most like to give contentment to the people , who by two and twenty years reign of King Edward the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of ...
The first of these was 25 fairest , and most like to give contentment to the people , who by two and twenty years reign of King Edward the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of ...
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Page 272 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 221 - He was born at Pembroke castle, and lieth buried at Westminster, in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and for the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive in Richmond, or any of his palaces.
Page 155 - ... creation, as in St. George's Fields, where his own person had been encamped. And for matter of liberality, he did, by open edict, give the goods of all the prisoners unto those that had taken them; either to take them in kind, or compound for them, as they could. After matter of honour and liberality, followed matter of severity and execution. The lord Audley was led from Newgate to Tower-Hill, in a paper coat painted with his own arms; the arms reversed, the coat torn, and he at Tower-Hill beheaded.
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| Title | History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby Pitt press series |
| Author | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) |
| Editor | Joseph Rawson Lumby |
| Published | 1876 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2006 |
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