History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... castle of Sheriff - Hut- 30 ton in Yorkshire , where were kept in safe custody , by King Richard's commandment , both the lady Elizabeth , daughter of King Edward , and Edward Plantagenet , son and heir to George duke of Clarence . This ...
... castle of Sheriff - Hut- 30 ton in Yorkshire , where were kept in safe custody , by King Richard's commandment , both the lady Elizabeth , daughter of King Edward , and Edward Plantagenet , son and heir to George duke of Clarence . This ...
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... castle to the hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence conveyed to the Tower of London , where he 5 was shut up close prisoner . Which act of the king's , being an act merely of policy and power ...
... castle to the hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence conveyed to the Tower of London , where he 5 was shut up close prisoner . Which act of the king's , being an act merely of policy and power ...
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... castle 10 of Dublin , and there saluted , served , and honoured as King ; the boy becoming it well , and doing nothing that did be- wray the baseness of his condition . And within a few days after he was proclaimed King in Dublin , by ...
... castle 10 of Dublin , and there saluted , served , and honoured as King ; the boy becoming it well , and doing nothing that did be- wray the baseness of his condition . And within a few days after he was proclaimed King in Dublin , by ...
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... castle , had sent a solemn ambassage unto James the third 20 King of Scotland , to treat and conclude a peace with him . The ambassadors were , Richard Fox , bishop of Exeter , and Sir Richard Edgcombe , comptroller of the King's house ...
... castle , had sent a solemn ambassage unto James the third 20 King of Scotland , to treat and conclude a peace with him . The ambassadors were , Richard Fox , bishop of Exeter , and Sir Richard Edgcombe , comptroller of the King's house ...
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... castles and forthwith sent to the lord Cordes , governor of Picardy under the French King , to desire aid ; and to move 20 him , that he , on the behalf of the French King , would be protector of the united towns , and by force of arms ...
... castles and forthwith sent to the lord Cordes , governor of Picardy under the French King , to desire aid ; and to move 20 him , that he , on the behalf of the French King , would be protector of the united towns , and by force of arms ...
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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.