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Two years later he became a member of Parliament , his first constituency being Melcombe Regis in Dorsetshire , and his parliamentary duties for various boroughs ( Taunton , Liverpool , Middlesex , Ipswich , St Albans , & c . ) ...
Two years later he became a member of Parliament , his first constituency being Melcombe Regis in Dorsetshire , and his parliamentary duties for various boroughs ( Taunton , Liverpool , Middlesex , Ipswich , St Albans , & c . ) ...
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In this year too , on July 9 , he became a Peer , taking the title of Baron Verulam , from the ancient name of the borough near which he had lived in youth and with which a long period of his parliamentary life had also been connected .
In this year too , on July 9 , he became a Peer , taking the title of Baron Verulam , from the ancient name of the borough near which he had lived in youth and with which a long period of his parliamentary life had also been connected .
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49 , quoted by Mr Spedding ) , that Henry sum- moned not a parliament , as stated in the text ( p . 53 ) , but a great council at Westminster , to debate on what was to be done in the matter of Brittany . For the duke of Brittany had ...
49 , quoted by Mr Spedding ) , that Henry sum- moned not a parliament , as stated in the text ( p . 53 ) , but a great council at Westminster , to debate on what was to be done in the matter of Brittany . For the duke of Brittany had ...
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89 ) to England , and in the middle of the year 1491 Henry called not a parliament , as it seems , but , in accordance with a former precedent , a great Council as precursor of a parliament ( for the parliament proper did not meet till ...
89 ) to England , and in the middle of the year 1491 Henry called not a parliament , as it seems , but , in accordance with a former precedent , a great Council as precursor of a parliament ( for the parliament proper did not meet till ...
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Battle of Bosworth Field Issue of Commissions to the Nor- thern Counties in anticipation of a war with Scotland Coronation of Henry VII Henry's first Parliament Marriage of Henry VII and Eliza- beth of York Truce with Scotland for three ...
Battle of Bosworth Field Issue of Commissions to the Nor- thern Counties in anticipation of a war with Scotland Coronation of Henry VII Henry's first Parliament Marriage of Henry VII and Eliza- beth of York Truce with Scotland for three ...
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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.
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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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