History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... took place . But we know now that the siege of Nantes was commenced on June 19th , 1487 ( only three days after the battle of Stoke ) , and raised on the 6th of August following , at which time the King was too busily concerned with his ...
... took place . But we know now that the siege of Nantes was commenced on June 19th , 1487 ( only three days after the battle of Stoke ) , and raised on the 6th of August following , at which time the King was too busily concerned with his ...
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... took place in time for the small succours , which that nobleman brought with him , to be present at the battle of St Aubin , July 28th , 1488. But these were the only English engaged in the cause of Brittany up to that date , and by the ...
... took place in time for the small succours , which that nobleman brought with him , to be present at the battle of St Aubin , July 28th , 1488. But these were the only English engaged in the cause of Brittany up to that date , and by the ...
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... took place ; and had Maximilian really taken the Duchess to wife , as he might have done , there would have been an end to Charles's scheme of annexing Brittany to the French crown . But taking advantage of the remissness of the ...
... took place ; and had Maximilian really taken the Duchess to wife , as he might have done , there would have been an end to Charles's scheme of annexing Brittany to the French crown . But taking advantage of the remissness of the ...
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... took him to life as well as I could , sitting so far off , and having no better light . It is true , your Highness hath a living pat- 5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ...
... took him to life as well as I could , sitting so far off , and having no better light . It is true , your Highness hath a living pat- 5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ...
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... took him to life as well as I could , sitting so far off , and having no better light . It is true , your Highness hath a living pat- 5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ...
... took him to life as well as I could , sitting so far off , and having no better light . It is true , your Highness hath a living pat- 5 tern , incomparable , of the King your father : But it is not amiss for you also to see one of these ...
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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.