History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... troubles , she was little fit . Lord Woodville's crossing into Brittany , which we know from the Paston Letters ( May , 1488 ) the king had counter- manded , took place in time for the small succours xii INTRODUCTION .
... troubles , she was little fit . Lord Woodville's crossing into Brittany , which we know from the Paston Letters ( May , 1488 ) the king had counter- manded , took place in time for the small succours xii INTRODUCTION .
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... trouble and confound the wisest King in the newness of his estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation , but 15 must be at once deliberated and determined . There were fallen to his lot , and concurrent in ...
... trouble and confound the wisest King in the newness of his estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation , but 15 must be at once deliberated and determined . There were fallen to his lot , and concurrent in ...
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... troubles , that the two young sons of King Edward the fourth , or one of them , which were said to be destroyed in the Tower , were not indeed murdered , but conveyed secretly away , and were yet living : which , if it had been true ...
... troubles , that the two young sons of King Edward the fourth , or one of them , which were said to be destroyed in the Tower , were not indeed murdered , but conveyed secretly away , and were yet living : which , if it had been true ...
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... troubles . The King , full of these thoughts , before his departure from Leicester , dis- patched Sir Robert Willoughby to the castle of Sheriff - Hut- 30 ton in Yorkshire , where were kept in safe custody , by King Richard's ...
... troubles . The King , full of these thoughts , before his departure from Leicester , dis- patched Sir Robert Willoughby to the castle of Sheriff - Hut- 30 ton in Yorkshire , where were kept in safe custody , by King Richard's ...
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... trouble themselves with the attainder of George duke of Clarence ; having newly learned by the King's example , that attainders do not interrupt the conveying of title to the crown . And as for the daughters of King Edward the 5 fourth ...
... trouble themselves with the attainder of George duke of Clarence ; having newly learned by the King's example , that attainders do not interrupt the conveying of title to the crown . And as for the daughters of King Edward the 5 fourth ...
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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.