History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... 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 his own person .
... 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 his own person .
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... yet he remembered well upon 30 what conditions and agreements he was brought in ; and that to claim as conqueror , was to put as well his own party , as the rest , into terror and fear ; as that which gave him power of disannulling ...
... yet he remembered well upon 30 what conditions and agreements he was brought in ; and that to claim as conqueror , was to put as well his own party , as the rest , into terror and fear ; as that which gave him power of disannulling ...
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Wherein still the King , out of strength of will or weakness of judgment , did use to shew a little more of the party than of the King 15 For the lady Elizabeth , she received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to ...
Wherein still the King , out of strength of will or weakness of judgment , did use to shew a little more of the party than of the King 15 For the lady Elizabeth , she received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to ...
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His ends in calling a parliament , 15 and that so speedily , were chiefly three ; first , to procure the crown to be entailed upon himself . Next , to have the attainders of all of his party , which were in no small number , reversed ...
His ends in calling a parliament , 15 and that so speedily , were chiefly three ; first , to procure the crown to be entailed upon himself . Next , to have the attainders of all of his party , which were in no small number , reversed ...
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The truth was , that divers of those , which had in the time of King Richard been strongest , and most declared for the King's party , were returned knights and burgesses for the parliament ; whether 5 by care or recommendation from the ...
The truth was , that divers of those , which had in the time of King Richard been strongest , and most declared for the King's party , were returned knights and burgesses for the parliament ; whether 5 by care or recommendation from the ...
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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.