History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... received from its designer the title of the “ Phænomena of the Universe . " He also worked at a scheme which he had previously laid before King James for a Digest of the Laws of England . He collected a volume of witty sayings from all ...
... received from its designer the title of the “ Phænomena of the Universe . " He also worked at a scheme which he had previously laid before King James for a Digest of the Laws of England . He collected a volume of witty sayings from all ...
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... received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to London , and there to remain with the Queen dowager ... receiving the acclamations and applauses of the people as he went , which indeed were true and unfeigned , as might ...
... received also a direction to repair with all convenient speed to London , and there to remain with the Queen dowager ... receiving the acclamations and applauses of the people as he went , which indeed were true and unfeigned , as might ...
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... received him at Shoreditch ; whence with great and honourable attendance , and troops of noblemen , and persons of quality , he entered 15 the city ; himself not being on horseback , or in any open chair or throne , but in a close ...
... received him at Shoreditch ; whence with great and honourable attendance , and troops of noblemen , and persons of quality , he entered 15 the city ; himself not being on horseback , or in any open chair or throne , but in a close ...
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... received satisfaction from them in matters of so great importance , and because he could not remunerate them with any general pardon , being prevented therein by the coronation - pardon passed immediately before : 25 but chiefly , for ...
... received satisfaction from them in matters of so great importance , and because he could not remunerate them with any general pardon , being prevented therein by the coronation - pardon passed immediately before : 25 but chiefly , for ...
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... received news , that the lord Lovel , Humphrey Stafford , and Thomas Staf- 15 ford , who had formerly taken sanctuary at Colchester , were departed out of sanctuary , but to what place no man could tell which advertisement the King ...
... received news , that the lord Lovel , Humphrey Stafford , and Thomas Staf- 15 ford , who had formerly taken sanctuary at Colchester , were departed out of sanctuary , but to what place no man could tell which advertisement the King ...
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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.