History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... Perkin besieges Exeter 17 Sept. Treaty with Scotland concluded 30 Sept. King Henry at Exeter 7 Oct. Warbeck carried in procession in London 20 Nov. Palace of Shene burnt 21 Dec. - Irish Parliament meets 28 March , 1498 . Charles VIII of ...
... Perkin besieges Exeter 17 Sept. Treaty with Scotland concluded 30 Sept. King Henry at Exeter 7 Oct. Warbeck carried in procession in London 20 Nov. Palace of Shene burnt 21 Dec. - Irish Parliament meets 28 March , 1498 . Charles VIII of ...
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... Perkin's pro- clamation , for an execrable breaker of the rites of holy church . 20 Another law was made for the better peace of the coun- try ; by which law the King's officers and farmers were to forfeit their places and holds , in ...
... Perkin's pro- clamation , for an execrable breaker of the rites of holy church . 20 Another law was made for the better peace of the coun- try ; by which law the King's officers and farmers were to forfeit their places and holds , in ...
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... Perkin Warbeck , whose adventures we shall now describe . For first , the years agreed well . Secondly , he was a youth of fine favour and shape . But more than 20 that , he had such a crafty and bewitching fashion , both to move pity ...
... Perkin Warbeck , whose adventures we shall now describe . For first , the years agreed well . Secondly , he was a youth of fine favour and shape . But more than 20 that , he had such a crafty and bewitching fashion , both to move pity ...
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... Perkin . For as for the name of War- beck , it was given him when they did but guess at it , before examinations had been taken . But yet he had been so much talked on by that name , as it stuck by him after his 25 true name of Osbeck ...
... Perkin . For as for the name of War- beck , it was given him when they did but guess at it , before examinations had been taken . But yet he had been so much talked on by that name , as it stuck by him after his 25 true name of Osbeck ...
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... Perkin should appear . And therefore he was straight sent unto by the duchess to go for Ireland , ac- cording to the first designment . In Ireland he did arrive at the town of Cork . When he was thither 108 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... Perkin should appear . And therefore he was straight sent unto by the duchess to go for Ireland , ac- cording to the first designment . In Ireland he did arrive at the town of Cork . When he was thither 108 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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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.