History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... of the Utopia , and the friend of Colet and Erasmus . Afterwards he was made Lord Chancellor , and was put to death for his religious opinions along with Bishop Fisher . 66 66 in support of the Duke of Brittany , INTRODUCTION . xi.
... of the Utopia , and the friend of Colet and Erasmus . Afterwards he was made Lord Chancellor , and was put to death for his religious opinions along with Bishop Fisher . 66 66 in support of the Duke of Brittany , INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... bishop of London's palace , where he stayed for a 25 time . During his abode there , he assembled his council and other principal persons , in presence of whom he did renew again his promise to marry with the lady Elizabeth . This he ...
... bishop of London's palace , where he stayed for a 25 time . During his abode there , he assembled his council and other principal persons , in presence of whom he did renew again his promise to marry with the lady Elizabeth . This he ...
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... took in good part as men use to do , that practise to borrow money when they have no need . About this time the King called unto his privy council John Morton and Richard Fox , the one bishop of Ely , the 18 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... took in good part as men use to do , that practise to borrow money when they have no need . About this time the King called unto his privy council John Morton and Richard Fox , the one bishop of Ely , the 18 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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... bishop of Exeter ; vigilant men , and secret , and such as kept watch with him almost upon all men else . They had ... bishops , because having rich bishopricks , they carried their reward upon themselves ; yet he did use to raise them ...
... bishop of Exeter ; vigilant men , and secret , and such as kept watch with him almost upon all men else . They had ... bishops , because having rich bishopricks , they carried their reward upon themselves ; yet he did use to raise them ...
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... bishop of Exeter , and Sir Richard Edgcombe , comptroller of the King's house , who were honourably received and entertained there . But the King of Scotland labouring of the same disease that 25 King Henry did , though more mortal , as ...
... bishop of Exeter , and Sir Richard Edgcombe , comptroller of the King's house , who were honourably received and entertained there . But the King of Scotland labouring of the same disease that 25 King Henry did , though more mortal , as ...
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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.