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Page viii
... months of his life . There can be little doubt that his relation was known to Siguença , whose position as prior of the Escorial must have given him access to all the royal archives . Juan Antonio de Vera y Figueroa , count of La Roca ...
... months of his life . There can be little doubt that his relation was known to Siguença , whose position as prior of the Escorial must have given him access to all the royal archives . Juan Antonio de Vera y Figueroa , count of La Roca ...
Page xiv
... months , and ' twenty - five days . ' " Siguença's account of the affair , which I have adopted , is that Charles , conceiving it to be for the benefit of his soul , and having obtained the consent of his confessor , caused a funeral ...
... months , and ' twenty - five days . ' " Siguença's account of the affair , which I have adopted , is that Charles , conceiving it to be for the benefit of his soul , and having obtained the consent of his confessor , caused a funeral ...
Page xix
... months , all but eight days , in the monastery until his death , and of the things which happened 1 Compte - rendu des seances de la commission royale d'histoire ou recueil de ses bulletins . Deuxième serie . tom . i . ler bulletin ...
... months , all but eight days , in the monastery until his death , and of the things which happened 1 Compte - rendu des seances de la commission royale d'histoire ou recueil de ses bulletins . Deuxième serie . tom . i . ler bulletin ...
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... months , much tormented with gout , but giving close attention to the winding up of his affairs with the world . In the previous autumn the king of the Romans had negotiated at Augsburg a peace with the protestants of Germany . In the ...
... months , much tormented with gout , but giving close attention to the winding up of his affairs with the world . In the previous autumn the king of the Romans had negotiated at Augsburg a peace with the protestants of Germany . In the ...
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... month of June , was postponed until August . When Maximilian and Mary arrived , Bruxelles became for a few days the scene of tournays , banquets , and other sumptuous festivities . These ended , the emperor began his journey , and ...
... month of June , was postponed until August . When Maximilian and Mary arrived , Bruxelles became for a few days the scene of tournays , banquets , and other sumptuous festivities . These ended , the emperor began his journey , and ...
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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 - He himself followed in his shroud. He was 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...
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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...