History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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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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... after many indignities and reproaches , the diriges and obsequies of the common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the King of his nobleness gave charge unto the friars of Leicester to see an honour.able ...
... after many indignities and reproaches , the diriges and obsequies of the common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the King of his nobleness gave charge unto the friars of Leicester to see an honour.able ...
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And al10 though he were a Prince in military virtue approved , jealous of the honour of the English nation , and likewise a good law - maker , for the ease and solace of the common people ; yet his cruelties and parricides , in the ...
And al10 though he were a Prince in military virtue approved , jealous of the honour of the English nation , and likewise a good law - maker , for the ease and solace of the common people ; yet his cruelties and parricides , in the ...
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... especially of the nobles and soldiers , upon himself ; as if the King , by his voluptuous life and mean marriage , were become effeminate and less sensible of honour and reason of state than was fit for a King .
... especially of the nobles and soldiers , upon himself ; as if the King , by his voluptuous life and mean marriage , were become effeminate and less sensible of honour and reason of state than was fit for a King .
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... she received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to London , and there to remain with the Queen dowager her mother ; which accordingly she soon after did , accompanied with many noblemen and ladies of honour .
... she received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to London , and there to remain with the Queen dowager her mother ; which accordingly she soon after did , accompanied with many noblemen and ladies of honour .
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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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