History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... hands ; the contriver of the death of the duke of 5 Clarence his brother ; the murderer of his two nephews , one of them his lawful King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him , and vehemently suspected to have ...
... hands ; the contriver of the death of the duke of 5 Clarence his brother ; the murderer of his two nephews , one of them his lawful King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him , and vehemently suspected to have ...
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... hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence conveyed to the Tower of London , where he 5 was shut up close prisoner . Which act of the king's , being an act merely of policy and power , proceeded not so much ...
... hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence conveyed to the Tower of London , where he 5 was shut up close prisoner . Which act of the king's , being an act merely of policy and power , proceeded not so much ...
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... hand . For notwithstanding a field so lately fought , and a coronation so near at hand , he only created three : Jasper , earl of Pem- 20 broke , the King's uncle , was created duke of Bedford ; Thomas , the lord Stanley , the King's ...
... hand . For notwithstanding a field so lately fought , and a coronation so near at hand , he only created three : Jasper , earl of Pem- 20 broke , the King's uncle , was created duke of Bedford ; Thomas , the lord Stanley , the King's ...
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... hand with 20 a great power of men , and that the Staffords were in arms in Worcestershire , and had made their approaches to the city of Worcester , to assail it . The King , as a prince of great and profound judgment , was not much ...
... hand with 20 a great power of men , and that the Staffords were in arms in Worcestershire , and had made their approaches to the city of Worcester , to assail it . The King , as a prince of great and profound judgment , was not much ...
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... hand in the business , from whom the priest might take his aim . That which is most probable , out of the precedent and subsequent acts , is , that it was the Queen dowager , from whom this action had the principal source and motion ...
... hand in the business , from whom the priest might take his aim . That which is most probable , out of the precedent and subsequent acts , is , that it was the Queen dowager , from whom this action had the principal source and motion ...
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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.