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The army of the French king was not before Nantes , but making its way through Brittany , and taking town after town by way of en- forcing Charles's claim to be the guardian of the young Duchess . This , Bacon , misled by Polydore ...
The army of the French king was not before Nantes , but making its way through Brittany , and taking town after town by way of en- forcing Charles's claim to be the guardian of the young Duchess . This , Bacon , misled by Polydore ...
Page xiv
... peace with Maximilian at the treaty of Frankfort , and agreed thereby to give back to Brittany all the towns which had been taken since the death of the Duke , and to this treaty Anne of Brittany gave her acceptance in Nov. , 1489.
... peace with Maximilian at the treaty of Frankfort , and agreed thereby to give back to Brittany all the towns which had been taken since the death of the Duke , and to this treaty Anne of Brittany gave her acceptance in Nov. , 1489.
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... 1490-1 , made himself master of the town of Nantes , the siege of which on a former occasion he had been obliged to raise . ( See Rymer , 12 June , 1490 , for an account of the commencement of this second investment of the town . ) ...
... 1490-1 , made himself master of the town of Nantes , the siege of which on a former occasion he had been obliged to raise . ( See Rymer , 12 June , 1490 , for an account of the commencement of this second investment of the town . ) ...
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... in which case he would have temporised , and seeing the business past retract , resolved to make on where the King was , and to give him battle ; and thereupon marched towards Newark , thinking to have sur- prised the town .
... in which case he would have temporised , and seeing the business past retract , resolved to make on where the King was , and to give him battle ; and thereupon marched towards Newark , thinking to have sur- prised the town .
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... in recovery of certain 25 towns from him : which was done in a kind of privacy , and inwardness towards the King ; as if the French King did not esteem him for an outward or formal confederate , but as one that had part in his ...
... in recovery of certain 25 towns from him : which was done in a kind of privacy , and inwardness towards the King ; as if the French King did not esteem him for an outward or formal confederate , but as one that had part in his ...
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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.
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| Title | History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby Pitt Press series |
| Author | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) |
| Editor | Joseph Rawson Lumby |
| Published | 1876 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2006 |
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