History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... subjects of antiquities and history , and his compilations , derived in great part from the collections in the libraries of Sir Robert Cotton , and the contributions of Sir Henry Spelman and other antiquaries , are of considerable value ...
... subjects of antiquities and history , and his compilations , derived in great part from the collections in the libraries of Sir Robert Cotton , and the contributions of Sir Henry Spelman and other antiquaries , are of considerable value ...
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... subjects , when most of his subjects are conscious in themselves that they stand in 25 his danger . Unto these three special motives of a parliament was added , that he , as a prudent and moderate Prince , made this judgment , that it ...
... subjects , when most of his subjects are conscious in themselves that they stand in 25 his danger . Unto these three special motives of a parliament was added , that he , as a prudent and moderate Prince , made this judgment , that it ...
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... subjects at this parliament ; both because he had received satisfaction from them in matters of so great importance ... subject ; especially in a time when he was in peace with all his neighbours . Some few 30 laws passed at that ...
... subjects at this parliament ; both because he had received satisfaction from them in matters of so great importance ... subject ; especially in a time when he was in peace with all his neighbours . Some few 30 laws passed at that ...
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... subjects from him daily more and more , especially when they saw , that after his marriage , and after a son born , the King did never- theless not so much as proceed to the coronation of the 15 Queen , not vouchsafing her the honour of ...
... subjects from him daily more and more , especially when they saw , that after his marriage , and after a son born , the King did never- theless not so much as proceed to the coronation of the 15 Queen , not vouchsafing her the honour of ...
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... subject his pupil should personate , because he was more in the present speech and votes of the people ; and it pieced better , and followed more close and handsomely , upon the bruit of Plantagenet's escape . But yet doubting that ...
... subject his pupil should personate , because he was more in the present speech and votes of the people ; and it pieced better , and followed more close and handsomely , upon the bruit of Plantagenet's escape . But yet doubting that ...
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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.