History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... Britain , was made earl of Bath ; Sir Giles 10 Daubeney , was made lord Daubeney ; and Sir Robert Willoughby , lord ... duke of Buck- 15 ingham , attainted in the time of King Richard , not only to his dignities , but to his fortunes and ...
... Britain , was made earl of Bath ; Sir Giles 10 Daubeney , was made lord Daubeney ; and Sir Robert Willoughby , lord ... duke of Buck- 15 ingham , attainted in the time of King Richard , not only to his dignities , but to his fortunes and ...
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... Britain . There were many circumstances that did feed the ambition of Charles with pregnant and apparent hopes of success : the duke of Britain old , and entered into a lethargy , and served with mercenary counsellors , 30 father of two ...
... Britain . There were many circumstances that did feed the ambition of Charles with pregnant and apparent hopes of success : the duke of Britain old , and entered into a lethargy , and served with mercenary counsellors , 30 father of two ...
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... Britain ; for that the duke had received and succoured 10 Lewis duke of Orleans , and other of the French nobility , which had taken arms against their King . Wherefore King Charles , being resolved upon that war , knew well he could ...
... Britain ; for that the duke had received and succoured 10 Lewis duke of Orleans , and other of the French nobility , which had taken arms against their King . Wherefore King Charles , being resolved upon that war , knew well he could ...
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... duke of Britain , for that he had received and succoured those that were traitors and declared enemies unto his person and state . That they were no mean , dis- tressed , and calamitous persons that fled to him for refuge , but of so ...
... duke of Britain , for that he had received and succoured those that were traitors and declared enemies unto his person and state . That they were no mean , dis- tressed , and calamitous persons that fled to him for refuge , but of so ...
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... duke of Britain , yet their master was well assured , it would not divert King Henry of England from doing that that was just , nor ever embark him in so ill- grounded a quarrel . Therefore , since this war , which their master was now ...
... duke of Britain , yet their master was well assured , it would not divert King Henry of England from doing that that was just , nor ever embark him in so ill- grounded a quarrel . Therefore , since this war , which their master was now ...
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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.