History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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The King , full of these thoughts , before his departure from Leicester , dispatched Sir Robert Willoughby to the castle of Sheriff - Hut- 30 ton in Yorkshire , where were kept in safe custody , by King Richard's commandment , both the ...
The King , full of these thoughts , before his departure from Leicester , dispatched Sir Robert Willoughby to the castle of Sheriff - Hut- 30 ton in Yorkshire , where were kept in safe custody , by King Richard's commandment , both the ...
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This Edward was by the King's warrant delivered from the constable of the 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 .
This Edward was by the King's warrant delivered from the constable of the 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 .
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So that with marvellous consent and applause , this counterfeit Plantagenet was brought with great solemnity to the castle 10 of Dublin , and there saluted , served , and honoured as King ; the boy becoming it well , and doing nothing ...
So that with marvellous consent and applause , this counterfeit Plantagenet was brought with great solemnity to the castle 10 of Dublin , and there saluted , served , and honoured as King ; the boy becoming it well , and doing nothing ...
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... and , as it was thought , instigated and cor- 15 . rupted from France , forsook the emperor and Maximilian his lord , and made himself an head of the popular party , and upon the towns of Ypres and Sluice with both the castles : and ...
... and , as it was thought , instigated and cor- 15 . rupted from France , forsook the emperor and Maximilian his lord , and made himself an head of the popular party , and upon the towns of Ypres and Sluice with both the castles : and ...
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... had taken the town and both the castles of Sluice ; as we 10 said before : and having , by the commodity of the haven , gotten together certain ships and barks , fell to a kind of piratical trade ; robbing and spoiling , and taking ...
... had taken the town and both the castles of Sluice ; as we 10 said before : and having , by the commodity of the haven , gotten together certain ships and barks , fell to a kind of piratical trade ; robbing and spoiling , and taking ...
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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...
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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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