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But these were the only English engaged in the cause of Brittany up to that date , and by the treaty of Verger ( 21 Aug. , 1488 ) hostilities between France and Brittany were brought to a close . It was in the following November ...
But these were the only English engaged in the cause of Brittany up to that date , and by the treaty of Verger ( 21 Aug. , 1488 ) hostilities between France and Brittany were brought to a close . It was in the following November ...
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... when he did dispatch a force , which arrived in Brittany in April , 1489 , and was acting in behalf of the duchy , while other English succours were engaged in Flanders in the cause of Maximilian . We learn also from Rymer ( XII .
... when he did dispatch a force , which arrived in Brittany in April , 1489 , and was acting in behalf of the duchy , while other English succours were engaged in Flanders in the cause of Maximilian . We learn also from Rymer ( XII .
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57 ) , and this caused Charles , from whom all knowledge of the marriage had been kept secret , to determine on taking some decisive step . He renewed the hostilities which had been suspended since the treaty of Frankfort , and in ...
57 ) , and this caused Charles , from whom all knowledge of the marriage had been kept secret , to determine on taking some decisive step . He renewed the hostilities which had been suspended since the treaty of Frankfort , and in ...
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The King , immediately after the victory , as one that had been bred under a devout mother , and was in his nature a great observer of religious forms , caused Te Deum laudamus to be solemnly sung in the presence of the 10 whole army ...
The King , immediately after the victory , as one that had been bred under a devout mother , and was in his nature a great observer of religious forms , caused Te Deum laudamus to be solemnly sung in the presence of the 10 whole army ...
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It came into this priest's 5 fancy , hearing what men talked , and in hope to raise him- self to some great bishopric , to cause this lad to counterfeit and personate the second son of Edward the fourth , sup- posed to be murdered ...
It came into this priest's 5 fancy , hearing what men talked , and in hope to raise him- self to some great bishopric , to cause this lad to counterfeit and personate the second son of Edward the fourth , sup- posed to be murdered ...
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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.
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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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