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... 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 kingdoms by him begun : besides , his times deserve it .
... 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 kingdoms by him begun : besides , his times deserve it .
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... in all times since , was , by the divine revenge favouring the design of an exiled man , overthrown and slain at Bosworth - field ; there succeeded in the 5 kingdom the earl of Richmond , thenceforth styled Henry the seventh .
... in all times since , was , by the divine revenge favouring the design of an exiled man , overthrown and slain at Bosworth - field ; there succeeded in the 5 kingdom the earl of Richmond , thenceforth styled Henry the seventh .
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But King Henry , in the very 10 entrance of his reign , and the instant of time when the kingdom was cast into his arms , met with a point of great difficulty , and knotty to solve , able to trouble and confound the wisest King in the ...
But King Henry , in the very 10 entrance of his reign , and the instant of time when the kingdom was cast into his arms , met with a point of great difficulty , and knotty to solve , able to trouble and confound the wisest King in the ...
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... of Henry the sixth , on the one side , and the times of Edward the fourth on the other , lucid intervals and 30 happy pauses ; yet they did ever hang over the kingdom , ready to break forth into new perturbations and calamities .
... of Henry the sixth , on the one side , and the times of Edward the fourth on the other , lucid intervals and 30 happy pauses ; yet they did ever hang over the kingdom , ready to break forth into new perturbations and calamities .
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This he did the rather , because having at his coming out of 30 Britain given artificially , for serving his own turn , some hopes , in case he obtained the kingdom , to marry Anne , inheritress to the duchy of Britain , whom Charles ...
This he did the rather , because having at his coming out of 30 Britain given artificially , for serving his own turn , some hopes , in case he obtained the kingdom , to marry Anne , inheritress to the duchy of Britain , whom Charles ...
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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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