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His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper , and his mother , who was the second wife of Sir Nicholas , was Anne , daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke . She was a lady of considerable learning , as was shewn by her ...
His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon , Queen Elizabeth's Lord Keeper , and his mother , who was the second wife of Sir Nicholas , was Anne , daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke . She was a lady of considerable learning , as was shewn by her ...
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IT MAY PLEASE YOUR HIGHNESS , IN part of my acknowledgment to your Highness , I have endeavoured to do honour to the memory of the last King of England , that was ancestor to the King your father and yourself ; and was that 5 King to ...
IT MAY PLEASE YOUR HIGHNESS , IN part of my acknowledgment to your Highness , I have endeavoured to do honour to the memory of the last King of England , that was ancestor to the King your father and yourself ; and was that 5 King to ...
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It is true , your Highness hath a living pat5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ancient pieces . God preserve your Highness . Your Highness's most humble and devoted ...
It is true , your Highness hath a living pat5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ancient pieces . God preserve your Highness . Your Highness's most humble and devoted ...
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... the King's uncle , was created duke of Bedford ; Thomas , the lord Stanley , the King's father - in - law , earl of Derby ; and Edward Courtney , earl of Devon ; though the ' King had then nevertheless a purpose in himself to make ...
... the King's uncle , was created duke of Bedford ; Thomas , the lord Stanley , the King's father - in - law , earl of Derby ; and Edward Courtney , earl of Devon ; though the ' King had then nevertheless a purpose in himself to make ...
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Charles the eighth the French King , by the virtue 5 and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the seventh his grandfather and Lewis the eleventh his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and ...
Charles the eighth the French King , by the virtue 5 and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the seventh his grandfather and Lewis the eleventh his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and ...
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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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