History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... person , three several titles to the imperial crown . The first , the title of the 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 ...
... person , three several titles to the imperial crown . The first , the title of the 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 ...
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... person , he knew it was a title con- demned by parliament , and generally prejudged in the com- mon opinion of the realm , and that it tended directly to the disinherison of the line of York , held then the indubitate 20 heirs of the ...
... person , he knew it was a title con- demned by parliament , and generally prejudged in the com- mon opinion of the realm , and that it tended directly to the disinherison of the line of York , held then the indubitate 20 heirs of the ...
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... persons of quality , he entered 15 the city ; himself not being on horseback , or in any open chair or throne , but in a close chariot , as one that having been sometimes an enemy to the whole state , and a pro- scribed person , chose ...
... persons of quality , he entered 15 the city ; himself not being on horseback , or in any open chair or throne , but in a close chariot , as one that having been sometimes an enemy to the whole state , and a pro- scribed person , chose ...
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... person , a band 5 of fifty archers , under a captain , to attend him , by the name of yeomen of his guard : and yet , that it might be thought to be rather a matter of dignity , after the imitation of what he had known abroad , than any ...
... person , a band 5 of fifty archers , under a captain , to attend him , by the name of yeomen of his guard : and yet , that it might be thought to be rather a matter of dignity , after the imitation of what he had known abroad , than any ...
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... persons ; especially when they are drunk with news , and talk of the people . But here is that which hath no appearance : That this priest , 20 being utterly unacquainted with the true person , according to whose pattern he should shape ...
... persons ; especially when they are drunk with news , and talk of the people . But here is that which hath no appearance : That this priest , 20 being utterly unacquainted with the true person , according to whose pattern he should shape ...
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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.