History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... mean marriage , were become effeminate and less sensible of honour and reason of state than was fit for a King . And as for the politic and wholesome laws which were enacted in his time , they were interpreted to be but the brocage of ...
... mean marriage , were become effeminate and less sensible of honour and reason of state than was fit for a King . And as for the politic and wholesome laws which were enacted in his time , they were interpreted to be but the brocage of ...
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... mean season the King set 20 forwards by easy journeys to the city of London , receiving the acclamations and applauses of the people as he went , which indeed were true and unfeigned , as might well appear in the very demonstrations and ...
... mean season the King set 20 forwards by easy journeys to the city of London , receiving the acclamations and applauses of the people as he went , which indeed were true and unfeigned , as might well appear in the very demonstrations and ...
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... mean- ing , nor no more was it the meaning of any of the better and sager sort that favoured this enterprise , and knew the 25 secret , that this disguised idol should possess the crown ; but at his peril to make way to the overthrow of ...
... mean- ing , nor no more was it the meaning of any of the better and sager sort that favoured this enterprise , and knew the 25 secret , that this disguised idol should possess the crown ; but at his peril to make way to the overthrow of ...
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... Mean while the rebels in Ireland had sent privy messen- gers both into England and into Flanders , who in both 25 places had wrought effects of no small importance . For in England they won to their party John earl of Lincoln , son of ...
... Mean while the rebels in Ireland had sent privy messen- gers both into England and into Flanders , who in both 25 places had wrought effects of no small importance . For in England they won to their party John earl of Lincoln , son of ...
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... means of the King's ascent to 20 the crown , and assurance therein . Wherefore with great violence of affection she embraced this overture . And upon counsel taken with the earl of Lincoln , and the lord Lovel , and some other of the ...
... means of the King's ascent to 20 the crown , and assurance therein . Wherefore with great violence of affection she embraced this overture . And upon counsel taken with the earl of Lincoln , and the lord Lovel , and some other of the ...
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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.