History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Meanwhile the body of Richard , after many indignities and reproaches , the diriges and obsequies of the common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the King of his nobleness gave charge unto the friars of ...
Meanwhile the body of Richard , after many indignities and reproaches , the diriges and obsequies of the common people towards tyrants , was 15 obscurely buried . For though the King of his nobleness gave charge unto the friars of ...
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He on the other side with great wisdom , not ignorant of the affections and fears of the people , to disperse the conceit and terror of a conquest , had given order , that there 5 should be nothing in his journey like unto a warlike ...
He on the other side with great wisdom , not ignorant of the affections and fears of the people , to disperse the conceit and terror of a conquest , had given order , that there 5 should be nothing in his journey like unto a warlike ...
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Unto these three special motives of a parliament was added , that he , as a prudent and moderate Prince , made this judgment , that it was fit for him to hasten to let his people see , that he meant to govern by law , howsoever he came ...
Unto these three special motives of a parliament was added , that he , as a prudent and moderate Prince , made this judgment , that it was fit for him to hasten to let his people see , that he meant to govern by law , howsoever he came ...
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... he could 30 obtain but two thousand pounds ; which nevertheless the King took in good part as men use to do , that practise to borrow money when they have no need . About this time the King called unto his privy council John Morton ...
... he could 30 obtain but two thousand pounds ; which nevertheless the King took in good part as men use to do , that practise to borrow money when they have no need . About this time the King called unto his privy council John Morton ...
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She was much 5 affectionate to her own kindred , even unto faction ; which did stir great envy in the lords of the King's side , who counted her blood a disparagement to be mingled with the King's . With which lords of the King's blood ...
She was much 5 affectionate to her own kindred , even unto faction ; which did stir great envy in the lords of the King's side , who counted her blood a disparagement to be mingled with the King's . With which lords of the King's blood ...
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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.
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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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