History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... lands of the Archduke Philip . This was an impost of a florin for every piece of English cloth imported into the Netherlands . The duty was withdrawn in 1497. Fabyan's work " The Concordance of Histories , " which at first is a mere com ...
... lands of the Archduke Philip . This was an impost of a florin for every piece of English cloth imported into the Netherlands . The duty was withdrawn in 1497. Fabyan's work " The Concordance of Histories , " which at first is a mere com ...
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... land , ” and at the same place is found a list of general pardons for Irishmen . So that Henry's mind was full of his own affairs at the time of the French embassy . But he sent Urswick over to France and to Brittany likewise , and as ...
... land , ” and at the same place is found a list of general pardons for Irishmen . So that Henry's mind was full of his own affairs at the time of the French embassy . But he sent Urswick over to France and to Brittany likewise , and as ...
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... lands in Lanca- shire Battle of Stoke 221 Aug. 1485 . 25 Sep. 30 Oct. 7 Nov. 18 Jan. 1485-6 . 3 July , 1486 . Sept. Feb ... land Battle of St Albans ( St Aubin ) 25 Nov. - -- II June , 1488 . 28 July , It is worth notice that August 21 ...
... lands in Lanca- shire Battle of Stoke 221 Aug. 1485 . 25 Sep. 30 Oct. 7 Nov. 18 Jan. 1485-6 . 3 July , 1486 . Sept. Feb ... land Battle of St Albans ( St Aubin ) 25 Nov. - -- II June , 1488 . 28 July , It is worth notice that August 21 ...
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... land over the bridge to the Tower , where the morrow after he made twelve knights bannerets . But for creations he dispensed them with a sparing hand . For notwithstanding a field so lately fought , and a coronation so near at hand , he ...
... land over the bridge to the Tower , where the morrow after he made twelve knights bannerets . But for creations he dispensed them with a sparing hand . For notwithstanding a field so lately fought , and a coronation so near at hand , he ...
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... to take away all her lands and estate ; and this by a close council , without any legal pro- ceeding , upon far fetched pretences that she had delivered her two daughters out of sanctuary to King Richard , ta HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... to take away all her lands and estate ; and this by a close council , without any legal pro- ceeding , upon far fetched pretences that she had delivered her two daughters out of sanctuary to King Richard , ta HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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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.