History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... 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 whom both unions may in a sort refer : that of the roses being in him consummate , and that of the ...
... 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 whom both unions may in a sort refer : that of the roses being in him consummate , and that of the ...
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... honour- .able interment to be given to it , yet the religious people themselves , being not free from the humours of the vulgar , neglected it ; wherein nevertheless they did not then incur 20 15 any man's blame or censure : no man ...
... honour- .able interment to be given to it , yet the religious people themselves , being not free from the humours of the vulgar , neglected it ; wherein nevertheless they did not then incur 20 15 any man's blame or censure : no man ...
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... 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 opinion of all men , weighed down his virtues and merits ; and , in the opinion of ...
... 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 opinion of all men , weighed down his virtues and merits ; and , in the opinion of ...
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... honour and reason of state than was fit for a King . And as for the politic and 5 wholesome laws which were enacted in his time , they were interpreted to be but the brocage of an usurper , thereby to woo and win the hearts of the ...
... honour and reason of state than was fit for a King . And as for the politic and 5 wholesome laws which were enacted in his time , they were interpreted to be but the brocage of an usurper , thereby to woo and win the hearts of the ...
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... honour . In the mean season the King set 20 forwards by easy journeys to the city of London , receiving the acclamations and applauses of the people as he went , which indeed were true and unfeigned , as might well appear in the very ...
... honour . In the mean season the King set 20 forwards by easy journeys to the city of London , receiving the acclamations and applauses of the people as he went , which indeed were true and unfeigned , as might well appear in the very ...
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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.