History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... King's assistance for 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 ... French embassy . But he sent Urswick over to France and to Brittany likewise , and as ...
... King's assistance for 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 ... French embassy . But he sent Urswick over to France and to Brittany likewise , and as ...
Page xiii
... France and Brittany were brought to a close . It was in the following November , " after keeping his All Hallow - tide ... French king was not before Nantes , but making its way through Brittany , and taking town after town by way of en ...
... France and Brittany were brought to a close . It was in the following November , " after keeping his All Hallow - tide ... French king was not before Nantes , but making its way through Brittany , and taking town after town by way of en ...
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... French crown . But taking advantage of the remissness of the Archduke , Charles ef- fected by marriage what he had not been able to achieve by war It was in the winter of this year 1489-90 that the commis- sioners from France came to ...
... French crown . But taking advantage of the remissness of the Archduke , Charles ef- fected by marriage what he had not been able to achieve by war It was in the winter of this year 1489-90 that the commis- sioners from France came to ...
Page xv
... French king roused Maximilian to send his embassy ( see p . 89 ) to England , and in the middle of the year 1491 ... France . The subsidies needful seem to have been voted ( con- ditionally no doubt ) by this assembly , for a commission ...
... French king roused Maximilian to send his embassy ( see p . 89 ) to England , and in the middle of the year 1491 ... France . The subsidies needful seem to have been voted ( con- ditionally no doubt ) by this assembly , for a commission ...
Page xvi
... French king and the conditions therein contained appear , as Bacon has it , " to the king's taste . " The treaty of Estaples was concluded on Sunday , Nov. 3 , 1492. For the better ap- preciation of the sequence of events throughout the ...
... French king and the conditions therein contained appear , as Bacon has it , " to the king's taste . " The treaty of Estaples was concluded on Sunday , Nov. 3 , 1492. For the better ap- preciation of the sequence of events throughout the ...
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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.