History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... of Hall , Grafton , and Stow sup- 1 Robert Fabyan ( d . 1512 ) was an alderman , and in 1493 was chosen one of the sheriffs of London . He is in some sort connected with our history of Henry VII , as in 1496 he was one of a deputation ...
... of Hall , Grafton , and Stow sup- 1 Robert Fabyan ( d . 1512 ) was an alderman , and in 1493 was chosen one of the sheriffs of London . He is in some sort connected with our history of Henry VII , as in 1496 he was one of a deputation ...
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... King's assistance for France against Brittany , or at least that he would ... Henry's mind was full of his own affairs at the time of the French embassy ... King was too busily concerned with his own disturbed realm either to receive or ...
... King's assistance for France against Brittany , or at least that he would ... Henry's mind was full of his own affairs at the time of the French embassy ... King was too busily concerned with his own disturbed realm either to receive or ...
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... Henry sum- moned not a parliament , as stated in the text ( p . 53 ) , but a great council at Westminster , to debate on what was to be done in the matter of Brittany . For the duke of Brittany had died on Sept. 9th , 1488 , and ...
... Henry sum- moned not a parliament , as stated in the text ( p . 53 ) , but a great council at Westminster , to debate on what was to be done in the matter of Brittany . For the duke of Brittany had died on Sept. 9th , 1488 , and ...
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... of the duchy , and preparatory to the sending of an army if nothing came of the embassy . All the account therefore ( pp . 60–61 ) of Henry's conduct in sending succours to Brittany immediately after the battle of St Aubin , which ...
... of the duchy , and preparatory to the sending of an army if nothing came of the embassy . All the account therefore ( pp . 60–61 ) of Henry's conduct in sending succours to Brittany immediately after the battle of St Aubin , which ...
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... 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 ... of Henry VII . I. xvi INTRODUCTION .
... 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 ... of Henry VII . I. xvi INTRODUCTION .
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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.