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... Arrival of Luis Quixada 022 22 222 Journey to Medina de Pomar , where they arrive on the 9th of October Visitors · Journey to Valladolid 16th - 21st October . 27 , 28 • 29 23 Arrival at Burgos on 13th Oct. ; reception there . 29 , 30 23 ...
... Arrival of Luis Quixada 022 22 222 Journey to Medina de Pomar , where they arrive on the 9th of October Visitors · Journey to Valladolid 16th - 21st October . 27 , 28 • 29 23 Arrival at Burgos on 13th Oct. ; reception there . 29 , 30 23 ...
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... arrived , Bruxelles became for a few days the scene of tournays , banquets , and other sumptuous festivities . These ended , the emperor began his journey , and arrived on the thirteenth of August at his favourite city of Ghent . There ...
... arrived , Bruxelles became for a few days the scene of tournays , banquets , and other sumptuous festivities . These ended , the emperor began his journey , and arrived on the thirteenth of August at his favourite city of Ghent . There ...
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... arrival in London of the lieutenant of the royal venery of Flanders , with a prime six - year- old boar , as a gift from the queen of Hungary . Roger Ascham , meeting the sporting dowager as she galloped into Tongres , far ahead of her ...
... arrival in London of the lieutenant of the royal venery of Flanders , with a prime six - year- old boar , as a gift from the queen of Hungary . Roger Ascham , meeting the sporting dowager as she galloped into Tongres , far ahead of her ...
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... arrival of the royal party seemed to take the bishop and the town by surprise , for few preparations had as yet been made for its reception . The admiral Carvajal instantly despatched his brother Alonso to court with the intelligence ...
... arrival of the royal party seemed to take the bishop and the town by surprise , for few preparations had as yet been made for its reception . The admiral Carvajal instantly despatched his brother Alonso to court with the intelligence ...
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... arrival was spent in vigorous prepa- ration ; and in the morning of the sixth of October , a messenger came from Valladolid with a seasonable supply of provisions . That morning , while Gaztelu penned a somewhat desponding account of ...
... arrival was spent in vigorous prepa- ration ; and in the morning of the sixth of October , a messenger came from Valladolid with a seasonable supply of provisions . That morning , while Gaztelu penned a somewhat desponding account of ...
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Page xiv - ... laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and, all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those...
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Page xiv - ... all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those awful sentiments which such a singular solemnity was calculated to inspire. But either the fatiguing length of the ceremony, or the impression which...
Page 48 - ... retreat. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees ; from the nature of...