History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... taken no active part , and it was not until the death of the Duke that any new claim was put forward by Charles , and then Henry felt that he must prepare for the helping of Brittany . The speech therefore put into the mouth of ...
... taken no active part , and it was not until the death of the Duke that any new claim was put forward by Charles , and then Henry felt that he must prepare for the helping of Brittany . The speech therefore put into the mouth of ...
Page xiv
... taken since the death of the Duke , and to this treaty Anne of Brittany gave her acceptance in Nov. , 1489. During all this time the project of marriage between Maximilian and Anne was maintained , and it was probably about this period ...
... taken since the death of the Duke , and to this treaty Anne of Brittany gave her acceptance in Nov. , 1489. During all this time the project of marriage between Maximilian and Anne was maintained , and it was probably about this period ...
Page xvi
... taken place Jan. 18th , 1486 , but the ecclesiastical year 1486 had not yet commenced , and therefore in the registers of the Church or of the courts of law this day would be entered as part of the year 1485. To express this the form ...
... taken place Jan. 18th , 1486 , but the ecclesiastical year 1486 had not yet commenced , and therefore in the registers of the Church or of the courts of law this day would be entered as part of the year 1485. To express this the form ...
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... taken with it , upon four and twenty hours escaping , were thought almost assured . And as to the time of the malice and reign of the disease , ere it ceased ; it began about the 25 one and twentieth of September , and cleared up before ...
... taken with it , upon four and twenty hours escaping , were thought almost assured . And as to the time of the malice and reign of the disease , ere it ceased ; it began about the 25 one and twentieth of September , and cleared up before ...
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... taken to divers persons in the house of commons , for that they 30 attainted , and thereby not legal , nor habilitate to serve in parliament , being disabled in the highest degree ; and that it should be a great incongruity to have them ...
... taken to divers persons in the house of commons , for that they 30 attainted , and thereby not legal , nor habilitate to serve in parliament , being disabled in the highest degree ; and that it should be a great incongruity to have them ...
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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.