History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... lady of considerable learning , as was shewn by her translation of Jewel's Apology from Latin into English . Bacon's youth was passed partly in London , and partly at the country residence of the family at Gorham- bury near St Albans ...
... lady of considerable learning , as was shewn by her translation of Jewel's Apology from Latin into English . Bacon's youth was passed partly in London , and partly at the country residence of the family at Gorham- bury near St Albans ...
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... lady Elizabeth , with whom , by precedent pact with the party that brought him in , he was to marry . The second , the 20 ancient and long disputed title , both by plea and arms , of the house of Lancaster , to which he was inheritor in ...
... lady Elizabeth , with whom , by precedent pact with the party that brought him in , he was to marry . The second , the 20 ancient and long disputed title , both by plea and arms , of the house of Lancaster , to which he was inheritor in ...
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... lady Elizabeth . On the other 15 side , if he stood upon his own title of the house of Lan- caster , inherent in his person , he knew it was a title con- demned by parliament , and generally prejudged in the com- mon opinion of the ...
... lady Elizabeth . On the other 15 side , if he stood upon his own title of the house of Lan- caster , inherent in his person , he knew it was a title con- demned by parliament , and generally prejudged in the com- mon opinion of the ...
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... lady Elizabeth at all , or any relation thereunto . In which course he ever after persisted ; which did spin him a thread of many seditions and troubles . The King , full of these thoughts , before his departure from Leicester , dis ...
... lady Elizabeth at all , or any relation thereunto . In which course he ever after persisted ; which did spin him a thread of many seditions and troubles . The King , full of these thoughts , before his departure from Leicester , dis ...
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... lady Elizabeth , she received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to London , and there to remain with the Queen dowager her mother ; which accord- ingly she soon after did , accompanied with many noblemen and ladies of ...
... lady Elizabeth , she received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to London , and there to remain with the Queen dowager her mother ; which accord- ingly she soon after did , accompanied with many noblemen and ladies of ...
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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.