History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Page xiii
... 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 , " after keeping his All Hallow - tide at Windsor ...
... 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 , " after keeping his All Hallow - tide at Windsor ...
Page xiv
... cause of Maximilian . We learn also from Rymer ( XII . 337 ) that in the August of that year reinforcements were being sent to these troops in France , and that commissions were issued for raising soldiers " destined for Brittany " may ...
... cause of Maximilian . We learn also from Rymer ( XII . 337 ) that in the August of that year reinforcements were being sent to these troops in France , and that commissions were issued for raising soldiers " destined for Brittany " may ...
Page xv
... 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 February , 1490-1 ...
... 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 February , 1490-1 ...
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... caused Te Deum laudamus to be solemnly sung in the presence of the 10 whole army upon the place , and was himself with general applause and great cries of joy , in a kind of military election or recognition , saluted King . Meanwhile ...
... caused Te Deum laudamus to be solemnly sung in the presence of the 10 whole army upon the place , and was himself with general applause and great cries of joy , in a kind of military election or recognition , saluted King . Meanwhile ...
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... cause this lad to counterfeit and personate the second son of Edward the fourth , sup- posed to be murdered ; and afterward , for he changed his intention in the manage , the lord Edward Plantagenet , then 10 prisoner in the Tower , and ...
... cause this lad to counterfeit and personate the second son of Edward the fourth , sup- posed to be murdered ; and afterward , for he changed his intention in the manage , the lord Edward Plantagenet , then 10 prisoner in the Tower , and ...
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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.