History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... kingdoms by him begun : besides , his times deserve it . For he was a wise man , and an excellent King ; and yet the times were rough , and full of 10 mutations , and rare accidents . And it is with times , as it is with ways : Some are ...
... kingdoms by him begun : besides , his times deserve it . For he was a wise man , and an excellent King ; and yet the times were rough , and full of 10 mutations , and rare accidents . And it is with times , as it is with ways : Some are ...
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... kingdom the earl of Richmond , thenceforth styled Henry the seventh . The King , immediately after the victory , as one that had been bred under a devout mother , and was in his nature a great observer of religious forms , caused Te ...
... kingdom the earl of Richmond , thenceforth styled Henry the seventh . The King , immediately after the victory , as one that had been bred under a devout mother , and was in his nature a great observer of religious forms , caused Te ...
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... 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 newness of his estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation ...
... 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 newness of his estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation ...
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... did ever hang over the kingdom , ready to break forth into new perturbations and calamities . And as his victory gave him the knee , so his purpose of 25 marriage with the lady Elizabeth gave him the heart ; io HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... did ever hang over the kingdom , ready to break forth into new perturbations and calamities . And as his victory gave him the knee , so his purpose of 25 marriage with the lady Elizabeth gave him the heart ; io HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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... , for serving his own turn , some hopes , in case he obtained the kingdom , to marry Anne , in- heritress to the duchy of Britain , whom Charles the eighth of France soon after married , it bred some doubt HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 11.
... , for serving his own turn , some hopes , in case he obtained the kingdom , to marry Anne , in- heritress to the duchy of Britain , whom Charles the eighth of France soon after married , it bred some doubt HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 11.
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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.