History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... 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 estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation , but 15 must be at once ...
... 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 estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation , but 15 must be at once ...
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... arms , or been participant of any attempts against him ; so as they submitted themselves 15 to his mercy by a day , and took the oath of allegiance and fidelity to him . Whereupon many came out of sanctuary , and many more came out of ...
... arms , or been participant of any attempts against him ; so as they submitted themselves 15 to his mercy by a day , and took the oath of allegiance and fidelity to him . Whereupon many came out of sanctuary , and many more came out of ...
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... arms in Worcestershire , and had made their approaches to the city of Worcester , to assail it . The King , as a prince of great and profound judgment , was not much moved with it ; for that he thought it was but a rag or remnant of ...
... arms in Worcestershire , and had made their approaches to the city of Worcester , to assail it . The King , as a prince of great and profound judgment , was not much moved with it ; for that he thought it was but a rag or remnant of ...
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... arms against their King . Wherefore King Charles , being resolved upon that war , knew well he could not receive any opposition so potent , as if King Henry should , either upon policy of state , in preventing the grow- 15 ing greatness ...
... arms against their King . Wherefore King Charles , being resolved upon that war , knew well he could not receive any opposition so potent , as if King Henry should , either upon policy of state , in preventing the grow- 15 ing greatness ...
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... arms his right to the kingdom of Naples , by an expedition in person ; all to remove the King from all jealousy of any design in these hither parts upon Britain , otherwise than for quenching of the fire , which he feared might be ...
... arms his right to the kingdom of Naples , by an expedition in person ; all to remove the King from all jealousy of any design in these hither parts upon Britain , otherwise than for quenching of the fire , which he feared might be ...
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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.