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The subsidies needful seem to have been voted ( conditionally no doubt ) by this assembly , for a commission for levying them exists dated 7th July , 1491. The narrative of Bacon is easily intelligible from this point ( p . 93 ) .
The subsidies needful seem to have been voted ( conditionally no doubt ) by this assembly , for a commission for levying them exists dated 7th July , 1491. The narrative of Bacon is easily intelligible from this point ( p . 93 ) .
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... for serving his own turn , some hopes , in case he obtained the kingdom , to marry Anne , inheritress to the duchy of Britain , whom Charles the eighth 20 of France soon after married , it bred some doubt HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... for serving his own turn , some hopes , in case he obtained the kingdom , to marry Anne , inheritress to the duchy of Britain , whom Charles the eighth 20 of France soon after married , it bred some doubt HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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of France soon after married , it bred some doubt and suspicion amongst divers that he was not sincere , or at least not fixed in going on with the match of England so much desired : which conceit also , though it were but talk and 5 ...
of France soon after married , it bred some doubt and suspicion amongst divers that he was not sincere , or at least not fixed in going on with the match of England so much desired : which conceit also , though it were but talk and 5 ...
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... that the crown should continue to him ; but whether as having former right to it , which was doubt- 10 ful , or having it then in fact and possession , which no man denied , was left fair to interpretation either way .
... that the crown should continue to him ; but whether as having former right to it , which was doubt- 10 ful , or having it then in fact and possession , which no man denied , was left fair to interpretation either way .
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Neither was the King's nature and customs greatly fit to disperse these 30 mists ; but contrariwise , he had a fashion rather to create doubts than assurance . Thus was fuel prepared for the spark : the spark , that afterwards kindled ...
Neither was the King's nature and customs greatly fit to disperse these 30 mists ; but contrariwise , he had a fashion rather to create doubts than assurance . Thus was fuel prepared for the spark : the spark , that afterwards kindled ...
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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.
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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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