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... peace with Maximilian at the treaty of Frankfort , and agreed thereby to give back to Brittany all the towns which had been taken since the death of the Duke , and to this treaty Anne of Brittany gave her acceptance in Nov. , 1489.
... peace with Maximilian at the treaty of Frankfort , and agreed thereby to give back to Brittany all the towns which had been taken since the death of the Duke , and to this treaty Anne of Brittany gave her acceptance in Nov. , 1489.
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The first of these was 25 fairest , and most like to give contentment to the people , who by two and twenty years reign of King Edward the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of ...
The first of these was 25 fairest , and most like to give contentment to the people , who by two and twenty years reign of King Edward the fourth had been fully made capable of the clearness of the title of the white rose or house of ...
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a regal power ; the right remaining in his Queen , upon whose decease , either with issue , or without issue , he was to give place and be removed . And though he should obtain by parliament to be continued , yet he knew there was a ...
a regal power ; the right remaining in his Queen , upon whose decease , either with issue , or without issue , he was to give place and be removed . And though he should obtain by parliament to be continued , yet he knew there was a ...
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The one , lest a joint coronation of himself and his Queen might give any countenance of participation of title ; the other , lest in the entailing of the crown to himself , which he hoped to obtain by parliament , the votes of the ...
The one , lest a joint coronation of himself and his Queen might give any countenance of participation of title ; the other , lest in the entailing of the crown to himself , which he hoped to obtain by parliament , the votes of the ...
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Therefore we shall make our judgment upon 5 the things themselves , as they give light one to another , and , as we can , dig truth out of the mine . The King was green in his estate ; and , contrary to his own opinion and desert both ...
Therefore we shall make our judgment upon 5 the things themselves , as they give light one to another , and , as we can , dig truth out of the mine . The King was green in his estate ; and , contrary to his own opinion and desert both ...
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Page 270 - 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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