History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Page xii
... reason for this unwillingness is to be discovered in the entries in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for this third year of the king's reign . We find there notices of preparation ( Feb. 1487--8 ) of forces against the King's enemies ...
... reason for this unwillingness is to be discovered in the entries in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for this third year of the king's reign . We find there notices of preparation ( Feb. 1487--8 ) of forces against the King's enemies ...
Page xvi
... reason for this notation is , that the historical year has for a very long period begun on January 1st , but the calculation of years used in ecclesiastical and legal documents made the year to commence on March 25th , until the two ...
... reason for this notation is , that the historical year has for a very long period begun on January 1st , but the calculation of years used in ecclesiastical and legal documents made the year to commence on March 25th , until the two ...
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... reason of his many disorders , could not be of long 25 life , but was like to leave his sons of tender years ; and then he knew well , how easy a step it was , from the place of a protector and first Prince of the blood to the crown ...
... reason of his many disorders , could not be of long 25 life , but was like to leave his sons of tender years ; and then he knew well , how easy a step it was , from the place of a protector and first Prince of the blood to the crown ...
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... reason of state than was fit for a King . And as for the politic and 5 wholesome laws which were enacted in his time , they were interpreted to be but the brocage of an usurper , thereby to woo and win the hearts of the people , as ...
... reason of state than was fit for a King . And as for the politic and 5 wholesome laws which were enacted in his time , they were interpreted to be but the brocage of an usurper , thereby to woo and win the hearts of the people , as ...
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... reason spare the purses of the subject ; especially in a time when he was in peace with all his neighbours . Some few 30 laws passed at that parliament , almost for form sake : amongst which there was one , to reduce aliens , being made ...
... reason spare the purses of the subject ; especially in a time when he was in peace with all his neighbours . Some few 30 laws passed at that parliament , almost for form sake : amongst which there was one , to reduce aliens , being made ...
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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.