History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... kind of military election or recognition , saluted King . Meanwhile the body of Richard , after many indignities and reproaches , the diriges and obsequies of the common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the ...
... kind of military election or recognition , saluted King . Meanwhile the body of Richard , after many indignities and reproaches , the diriges and obsequies of the common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the ...
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... kind of divination , that the King , by reason of his many disorders , could not be of long 25 life , but was like to leave his sons of tender years ; and then he knew well , how easy a step it was , from the place of a protector and ...
... kind of divination , that the King , by reason of his many disorders , could not be of long 25 life , but was like to leave his sons of tender years ; and then he knew well , how easy a step it was , from the place of a protector and ...
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... kind of middle 5 way , by way of establishment , and that under covert and indifferent words ; " that the inheritance of the crown should rest , remain , and abide in the King , " etc. , which words might equally be applied , that the ...
... kind of middle 5 way , by way of establishment , and that under covert and indifferent words ; " that the inheritance of the crown should rest , remain , and abide in the King , " etc. , which words might equally be applied , that the ...
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... kind of gratitude , for that the duke was the man that moved the first stone against the tyranny of King Richard , and indeed made the 20 King a bridge to the crown upon his own ruins . Thus the parliament broke up . The parliament ...
... kind of gratitude , for that the duke was the man that moved the first stone against the tyranny of King Richard , and indeed made the 20 King a bridge to the crown upon his own ruins . Thus the parliament broke up . The parliament ...
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... kind , by the imprisonment of de la Pole also ; the rather thinking it policy to conserve him as a co - rival unto the other . The earl of Lincoln was induced 10 to participate with the action of Ireland , not lightly upon the strength ...
... kind , by the imprisonment of de la Pole also ; the rather thinking it policy to conserve him as a co - rival unto the other . The earl of Lincoln was induced 10 to participate with the action of Ireland , not lightly upon the strength ...
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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.