History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the King of his nobleness gave charge unto the friars of Leicester to see an honour- .able interment to be given to it , yet the religious people themselves , being ...
... common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the King of his nobleness gave charge unto the friars of Leicester to see an honour- .able interment to be given to it , yet the religious people themselves , being ...
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... common people ; yet his cruelties and parricides , in the opinion of all men , weighed down his virtues and merits ; and , in the opinion of wise men , even those virtues themselves were conceived ' to be rather feigned and affected ...
... common people ; yet his cruelties and parricides , in the opinion of all men , weighed down his virtues and merits ; and , in the opinion of wise men , even those virtues themselves were conceived ' to be rather feigned and affected ...
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... common friend to them , to satisfy all obligations both to God and man , but to offer himself for a mediator of an accord and peace between them ; by which course he doubted not but their King's estate , and honour both , would be ...
... common friend to them , to satisfy all obligations both to God and man , but to offer himself for a mediator of an accord and peace between them ; by which course he doubted not but their King's estate , and honour both , would be ...
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... divers excellent laws or- dained concerning the points which the King recommended . First , the authority of the star - chamber , which before 5 subsisted by the ancient common laws of the realm HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 61.
... divers excellent laws or- dained concerning the points which the King recommended . First , the authority of the star - chamber , which before 5 subsisted by the ancient common laws of the realm HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 61.
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... common laws of the realm , was confirmed in certain cases by act of parliament . This court is one of the sagest and noblest institutions of this kingdom . For in the distribution of courts of ordinary justice , besides the high court ...
... common laws of the realm , was confirmed in certain cases by act of parliament . This court is one of the sagest and noblest institutions of this kingdom . For in the distribution of courts of ordinary justice , besides the high court ...
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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.