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any man ' s blame or censure : no man thinking any ignominy or contumely
unworthy of him , that had been the executioner of King Henry the sixth , that
innocent Prince , with his own hands ; the contriver of the death of the duke of 5
Clarence ...
any man ' s blame or censure : no man thinking any ignominy or contumely
unworthy of him , that had been the executioner of King Henry the sixth , that
innocent Prince , with his own hands ; the contriver of the death of the duke of 5
Clarence ...
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But King Henry , in the very 10 entrance of his reign , and the instant of time when
the kingdom was cast into his arms , met with a point of great difficulty , and knotty
to solve , able to trouble and confound the wisest King in the newness of his ...
But King Henry , in the very 10 entrance of his reign , and the instant of time when
the kingdom was cast into his arms , met with a point of great difficulty , and knotty
to solve , able to trouble and confound the wisest King in the newness of his ...
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25 As for conquest , notwithstanding Sir William Stanley , after some
acclamations of the soldiers in the field , had put a crown of ornament , which
Richard wore in the battle and was found amongst the spoils , upon King Henry '
s head , as if ...
25 As for conquest , notwithstanding Sir William Stanley , after some
acclamations of the soldiers in the field , had put a crown of ornament , which
Richard wore in the battle and was found amongst the spoils , upon King Henry '
s head , as if ...
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This Edward was by the King ' s warrant delivered from the constable of the castle
to the hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence
conveyed to the Tower of London , where he 5 was shut up close prisoner .
This Edward was by the King ' s warrant delivered from the constable of the castle
to the hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence
conveyed to the Tower of London , where he 5 was shut up close prisoner .
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The truth was , that divers of those , which had in the time of King Richard been
strongest , and most declared for the King ' s party , were returned knights and
burgesses for the parliament ; whether 5 by care or recommendation from the
state ...
The truth was , that divers of those , which had in the time of King Richard been
strongest , and most declared for the King ' s party , were returned knights and
burgesses for the parliament ; whether 5 by care or recommendation from the
state ...
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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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