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Cornish rebellion begins May , 1497 . Encampment on Blackheath 16 June , –
Battle of Blackheath 17 June , - Lord Audley beheaded Cabot ' s first voyage The
Scotch attack Norham July , Warbeck leaves Scotland 6 July , - - Perkin besieges
...
Cornish rebellion begins May , 1497 . Encampment on Blackheath 16 June , –
Battle of Blackheath 17 June , - Lord Audley beheaded Cabot ' s first voyage The
Scotch attack Norham July , Warbeck leaves Scotland 6 July , - - Perkin besieges
...
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... both because 15 they might taste of some corporal punishment , and that might
carry a brand of infamy . But for this good act ' s sake , the King himself was after
branded by Perkin ' s proclamation , for an execrable breaker of the rites of holy ...
... both because 15 they might taste of some corporal punishment , and that might
carry a brand of infamy . But for this good act ' s sake , the King himself was after
branded by Perkin ' s proclamation , for an execrable breaker of the rites of holy ...
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At the last she did light on one , in whom all things met , 15 as one would wish , to
serve her turn for a counterfeit of Richard of York . . This was Perkin Warbeck ,
whose adventures we shall now describe . For first , the years agreed well .
At the last she did light on one , in whom all things met , 15 as one would wish , to
serve her turn for a counterfeit of Richard of York . . This was Perkin Warbeck ,
whose adventures we shall now describe . For first , the years agreed well .
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But afterwards proving a dainty and effeminate 20 youth , he was commonly
called by the diminutive of his name , Peter - kin , or Perkin . For as for the name
of Warbeck , it was given him when they did but guess at it , before examinations
had ...
But afterwards proving a dainty and effeminate 20 youth , he was commonly
called by the diminutive of his name , Peter - kin , or Perkin . For as for the name
of Warbeck , it was given him when they did but guess at it , before examinations
had ...
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30 Now did the sign reign , and the constellation was come , under which Perkin
should appear . And therefore he was straight sent unto by the duchess to go for
Ireland , according to the first designment . In Ireland he did arrive at the town of ...
30 Now did the sign reign , and the constellation was come , under which Perkin
should appear . And therefore he was straight sent unto by the duchess to go for
Ireland , according to the first designment . In Ireland he did arrive at the town of ...
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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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