History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... Thomas More's1 " History of the Life and Death of King Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III . ” Bacon must also have made some use of the manuscript treasures of Sir Robert Cotton , even though under the sentence which was ...
... Thomas More's1 " History of the Life and Death of King Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III . ” Bacon must also have made some use of the manuscript treasures of Sir Robert Cotton , even though under the sentence which was ...
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... Thomas Bourchier , archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal ; and from Lambeth went by land over the bridge to the Tower , where the morrow after he made twelve knights bannerets . But for creations he dispensed them with a sparing hand ...
... Thomas Bourchier , archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal ; and from Lambeth went by land over the bridge to the Tower , where the morrow after he made twelve knights bannerets . But for creations he dispensed them with a sparing hand ...
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... Thomas Staf- 15 ford , who had formerly taken sanctuary at Colchester , were departed out of sanctuary , but to what place no man could tell which advertisement the King despised , and continued his journey to York . At York there came ...
... Thomas Staf- 15 ford , who had formerly taken sanctuary at Colchester , were departed out of sanctuary , but to what place no man could tell which advertisement the King despised , and continued his journey to York . At York there came ...
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... Thomas Broughton , after sailed over into Flanders to the lady Margaret . And his men , forsaken of their captain , 10 did presently submit themselves to the duke . The Staffords likewise , and their forces , hearing what had happened ...
... Thomas Broughton , after sailed over into Flanders to the lady Margaret . And his men , forsaken of their captain , 10 did presently submit themselves to the duke . The Staffords likewise , and their forces , hearing what had happened ...
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... Thomas Fitz - Gerard , earl of Kildare and deputy of Ireland ; before whose eyes he did cast such 20 a mist , by his own insinuation , and by the carriage of his youth , that expressed a natural princely behaviour , as joined perhaps ...
... Thomas Fitz - Gerard , earl of Kildare and deputy of Ireland ; before whose eyes he did cast such 20 a mist , by his own insinuation , and by the carriage of his youth , that expressed a natural princely behaviour , as joined perhaps ...
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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.