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Verulam and Viscount St Albans , was born 22nd Jan. , 1560-1 , at York House , in the Strand . His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper , and his mother , who was the second wife of Sir Nicholas , was Anne ...
Verulam and Viscount St Albans , was born 22nd Jan. , 1560-1 , at York House , in the Strand . His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper , and his mother , who was the second wife of Sir Nicholas , was Anne ...
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This fragment was probably composed when Bacon conceived the idea of putting forth a history of England that should begin with the union of the Houses of York and 1 John Speed ( 1552—1629 ) was one of the most industrious writers of ...
This fragment was probably composed when Bacon conceived the idea of putting forth a history of England that should begin with the union of the Houses of York and 1 John Speed ( 1552—1629 ) was one of the most industrious writers of ...
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... thus : Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York , Jan. 18th , 1485—6 . The reason for this notation is , that the historical year has for a very long period begun on January ist , but the calculation of years used in ...
... thus : Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York , Jan. 18th , 1485—6 . The reason for this notation is , that the historical year has for a very long period begun on January ist , but the calculation of years used in ...
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Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York * 18 Jan. 1485-6 . Truce with Scotland for three years 3 July , 1486 . Birth of Prince Arthur Sept. Council at Shene Feb. 1486—7 . Lambert Simnel lands in Lancashire 4 June , 1487 .
Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York * 18 Jan. 1485-6 . Truce with Scotland for three years 3 July , 1486 . Birth of Prince Arthur Sept. Council at Shene Feb. 1486—7 . Lambert Simnel lands in Lancashire 4 June , 1487 .
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... the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of York ; and , by the mild and plausible reign of the same King toward his latter time , 30 were become affectionate to that line .
... the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of York ; and , by the mild and plausible reign of the same King toward his latter time , 30 were become affectionate to that line .
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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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