History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... France as one of the suite of Sir Amyas Paulet , who went to Paris as English ambassador in September , 1576. But after little more than two years of such life , the prospects of young Bacon became utterly changed by the sudden death of ...
... France as one of the suite of Sir Amyas Paulet , who went to Paris as English ambassador in September , 1576. But after little more than two years of such life , the prospects of young Bacon became utterly changed by the sudden death of ...
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... France and Brittany , and the character of his intervention history down to the year 1532. It was not published till 1548 , the year after the death of the author , and had been completed by Grafton . 5 Richard Grafton produced in 1569 ...
... France and Brittany , and the character of his intervention history down to the year 1532. It was not published till 1548 , the year after the death of the author , and had been completed by Grafton . 5 Richard Grafton produced in 1569 ...
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... France against Brittany , or at least that he would stand neutral . " Now it is to be noted that in Bacon's account of the king's reply it is stated that he " was utterly unwilling to enter into war with France . " It is probable that ...
... France against Brittany , or at least that he would stand neutral . " Now it is to be noted that in Bacon's account of the king's reply it is stated that he " was utterly unwilling to enter into war with France . " It is probable that ...
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... France and Brittany were brought to a close . It was in the following November , " after keeping his All Hallow - tide at Windsor " ( see Herald's narrative , Cott . MSS . Jul . XII . fol . 49 , quoted by Mr Spedding ) , that Henry sum ...
... France and Brittany were brought to a close . It was in the following November , " after keeping his All Hallow - tide at Windsor " ( see Herald's narrative , Cott . MSS . Jul . XII . fol . 49 , quoted by Mr Spedding ) , that Henry sum ...
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... France , and that commissions were issued for raising soldiers " destined for Brittany " may be seen from the ... France came to England and made the proposi- tions contained in the speech recorded on pp . 79 seqq . , in consequence of ...
... France , and that commissions were issued for raising soldiers " destined for Brittany " may be seen from the ... France came to England and made the proposi- tions contained in the speech recorded on pp . 79 seqq . , in consequence of ...
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Page 270 - 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.