History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Page xiii
... town after town by way of en- forcing Charles's claim to be the guardian of the young Duchess . This , Bacon , misled by Polydore , did not know , and so could not put into the mouth of his speaker . The statement likewise ( p . 60 ) ...
... town after town by way of en- forcing Charles's claim to be the guardian of the young Duchess . This , Bacon , misled by Polydore , did not know , and so could not put into the mouth of his speaker . The statement likewise ( p . 60 ) ...
Page xiv
... towns which had been 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 ...
... towns which had been 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 ...
Page xv
... 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 . ) The tidings of this new movement on 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 . ) The tidings of this new movement on the ...
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... town . But the King was somewhat before this time come to Nottingham , where he called a council of war , at which was consulted whether it were best to protract 10 time , or speedily to set upon the rebels . In which council the King ...
... town . But the King was somewhat before this time come to Nottingham , where he called a council of war , at which was consulted whether it were best to protract 10 time , or speedily to set upon the rebels . In which council the King ...
Page 43
... 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 affections and fortunes , and with ...
... 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 affections and fortunes , and with ...
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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.