History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... manner ; but rather like unto the progress of a King in full peace and assurance . He entered the city upon a Saturday , as he had also ob- tained the victory upon a Saturday ; which day of the week , 10 first upon an observation , and ...
... manner ; but rather like unto the progress of a King in full peace and assurance . He entered the city upon a Saturday , as he had also ob- tained the victory upon a Saturday ; which day of the week , 10 first upon an observation , and ...
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... manner thereof they called the sweating sickness . This 20 disease had a swift course , both in the sick body , and in the time and period of the lasting thereof ; for they that were taken with it , upon four and twenty hours escaping ...
... manner thereof they called the sweating sickness . This 20 disease had a swift course , both in the sick body , and in the time and period of the lasting thereof ; for they that were taken with it , upon four and twenty hours escaping ...
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... manner of the cure and attendance was known . It was conceived not to be an epidemic disease , but to 10 proceed from a malignity in the constitution of the air , gathered by the predispositions of seasons ; and the speedy cessation ...
... manner of the cure and attendance was known . It was conceived not to be an epidemic disease , but to 10 proceed from a malignity in the constitution of the air , gathered by the predispositions of seasons ; and the speedy cessation ...
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... assured , being taken some few out of his own train , and the rest out of the tenants and follow- ers of such as were safe to be trusted , under the conduct of the duke of Bedford . And as his manner was 20 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... assured , being taken some few out of his own train , and the rest out of the tenants and follow- ers of such as were safe to be trusted , under the conduct of the duke of Bedford . And as his manner was 20 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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... manner was to send his pardons rather before the sword than after , he gave com- mission to the duke to proclaim pardon to all that would come in which the duke , upon his approach to the lord Lovel's camp , did perform . And it fell ...
... manner was to send his pardons rather before the sword than after , he gave com- mission to the duke to proclaim pardon to all that would come in which the duke , upon his approach to the lord Lovel's camp , did perform . And it fell ...
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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.