History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... continued his studies in that University until his sixteenth year . The father designed his son for diplomatic life , and therefore after entering him of Gray's Inn , sent him to France as one of the suite of Sir Amyas Paulet , who went ...
... continued his studies in that University until his sixteenth year . The father designed his son for diplomatic life , and therefore after entering him of Gray's Inn , sent him to France as one of the suite of Sir Amyas Paulet , who went ...
Page vi
... continued with- out a break for more than thirty years . In 1589 the gift of the reversion of the sinecure office of Clerk of the Council in the Star Chamber seemed to promise an income which would relieve him from the necessity of ...
... continued with- out a break for more than thirty years . In 1589 the gift of the reversion of the sinecure office of Clerk of the Council in the Star Chamber seemed to promise an income which would relieve him from the necessity of ...
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... continued , yet he knew there was a very great difference between a King that holdeth his crown by a civil act of estates , and one that holdeth it originally by the law of nature and descent of blood . Neither wanted there even at that ...
... continued , yet he knew there was a very great difference between a King that holdeth his crown by a civil act of estates , and one that holdeth it originally by the law of nature and descent of blood . Neither wanted there even at that ...
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... continued his journey to York . At York there came fresh and more certain advertisement , that the lord Lovel was at hand with 20 a great power of men , and that the Staffords were in arms in Worcestershire , and had made their ...
... continued his journey to York . At York there came fresh and more certain advertisement , that the lord Lovel was at hand with 20 a great power of men , and that the Staffords were in arms in Worcestershire , and had made their ...
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... continued his nuptial love , helping herself by some obsequious bearing and dis- sembling of his pleasures , to the very end . She was much 5 affectionate to her own kindred , even unto faction ; which did stir great envy in the lords ...
... continued his nuptial love , helping herself by some obsequious bearing and dis- sembling of his pleasures , to the very end . She was much 5 affectionate to her own kindred , even unto faction ; which did stir great envy in the lords ...
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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.