History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Page vi
... Council in the Star Chamber seemed to promise an income which would relieve him from the necessity of following the law as his career , but the office did not become vacant for nearly twenty years , and thus the world was deprived in ...
... Council in the Star Chamber seemed to promise an income which would relieve him from the necessity of following the law as his career , but the office did not become vacant for nearly twenty years , and thus the world was deprived in ...
Page xiii
... council at Westminster , to debate on what was to be done in the matter of Brittany . For the duke of Brittany had died on Sept. 9th , 1488 , and Charles's claim of wardship now began to be asserted over the young duchess Anne . We find ...
... council at Westminster , to debate on what was to be done in the matter of Brittany . For the duke of Brittany had died on Sept. 9th , 1488 , and Charles's claim of wardship now began to be asserted over the young duchess Anne . We find ...
Page xv
... Council as precursor of a parliament ( for the parliament proper did not meet till 17th October , 1491 ) , and to them he made his speech about his intention to go to war with France . The subsidies needful seem to have been voted ( con ...
... Council as precursor of a parliament ( for the parliament proper did not meet till 17th October , 1491 ) , and to them he made his speech about his intention to go to war with France . The subsidies needful seem to have been voted ( con ...
Page xvii
... Council at Shene Lambert Simnel lands in Lanca- shire Battle of Stoke Siege of Nantes commenced وو 99 afterwards raised Embassy sent to England from Charles VIII about Henry's second 2 Parliament Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Murder of ...
... Council at Shene Lambert Simnel lands in Lanca- shire Battle of Stoke Siege of Nantes commenced وو 99 afterwards raised Embassy sent to England from Charles VIII about Henry's second 2 Parliament Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Murder of ...
Page xviii
... Council Speech of Chancellor Morton ( p . 53 ) was made Solemn Embassy from England to France Henry's third 2 Parliament First succours sent by Henry to Brittany Northern subsidy riot Embassy from Charles VIII to England Third ...
... Council Speech of Chancellor Morton ( p . 53 ) was made Solemn Embassy from England to France Henry's third 2 Parliament First succours sent by Henry to Brittany Northern subsidy riot Embassy from Charles VIII to England Third ...
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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.