History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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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 he ...
... 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 he ...
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... Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III ” Bacon must also have made some use of the manuscript treasures of Sir Robert Cotton , even though under the sentence which was imposed upon him he was excluded from London . The result ...
... Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III ” Bacon must also have made some use of the manuscript treasures of Sir Robert Cotton , even though under the sentence which was imposed upon him he was excluded from London . The result ...
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... Edward born Ralph Wilford hanged Treaty with Scotland ( containing arrangements about letters com- mendatory ) Fox commissioned to treat of a marriage with Scotland , King James with Princess Margaret Perkin Warbeck executed at Ty- burn ...
... Edward born Ralph Wilford hanged Treaty with Scotland ( containing arrangements about letters com- mendatory ) Fox commissioned to treat of a marriage with Scotland , King James with Princess Margaret Perkin Warbeck executed at Ty- burn ...
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... 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 divination , that the King , by reason of his many disorders , could not be of ...
... 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 divination , that the King , by reason of his many disorders , could not be of ...
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... Edward the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of York ; and , by the mild and plausible reign of the same King toward his latter time , 30 were become affectionate to that line ...
... Edward the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of York ; and , by the mild and plausible reign of the same King toward his latter time , 30 were become affectionate to that line ...
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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.