History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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For the better appreciation of the sequence of events throughout the reign a table is appended of the principal events of the reign of Henry VII , ranged according to the regnal years of the king , which are so frequently alluded to in ...
For the better appreciation of the sequence of events throughout the reign a table is appended of the principal events of the reign of Henry VII , ranged according to the regnal years of the king , which are so frequently alluded to in ...
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During his abode there , he assembled his council and other principal persons , in presence of whom he did renew again his promise to marry with the lady Elizabeth . This he did the rather , because having at his coming out of 30 ...
During his abode there , he assembled his council and other principal persons , in presence of whom he did renew again his promise to marry with the lady Elizabeth . This he did the rather , because having at his coming out of 30 ...
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... 20 to attaint by parliament the heads and principals of his enemies . The third , to calm and quiet the fears of the rest of that party by a general pardon ; not being ignorant in how great danger a King stands from his subjects ...
... 20 to attaint by parliament the heads and principals of his enemies . The third , to calm and quiet the fears of the rest of that party by a general pardon ; not being ignorant in how great danger a King stands from his subjects ...
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That which is most probable , out of the precedent and subsequent acts , is , that it was the Queen dowager , from whom this action had the principal source and motion . For certain it is , she was a busy nego15 ciating woman , and in ...
That which is most probable , out of the precedent and subsequent acts , is , that it was the Queen dowager , from whom this action had the principal source and motion . For certain it is , she was a busy nego15 ciating woman , and in ...
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Add to this , that after the earl of Lincoln , a principal person of the house of York , was slain in Stoke - field , the King opened himself to some of his council , that he was sorry for the earl's death , because by him , he said ...
Add to this , that after the earl of Lincoln , a principal person of the house of York , was slain in Stoke - field , the King opened himself to some of his council , that he was sorry for the earl's death , because by him , he said ...
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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.