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... counsellor , to the lord mayor of London , requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks : but after many parleys , he could 30 obtain but two thousand pounds ; which nevertheless the King took in good part as men use to do , that ...
... counsellor , to the lord mayor of London , requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks : but after many parleys , he could 30 obtain but two thousand pounds ; which nevertheless the King took in good part as men use to do , that ...
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... counsellors , and put in their places , or at least intermingled , persons of whom he stood assured , as he should have done , since he knew the strong bent of that country towards the house of York ; and that it was a ticklish and ...
... counsellors , and put in their places , or at least intermingled , persons of whom he stood assured , as he should have done , since he knew the strong bent of that country towards the house of York ; and that it was a ticklish and ...
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... counsellors , for his father was his own council , and had few able men about him . And that King , he knew well , had ever dis- 25 tasted the designs of Italy , and in particular had an eye upon Britain . There were many circumstances ...
... counsellors , for his father was his own council , and had few able men about him . And that King , he knew well , had ever dis- 25 tasted the designs of Italy , and in particular had an eye upon Britain . There were many circumstances ...
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... counsellors , failed him , and would have betrayed him ; and that there was a great difference between the courtesies received from their master , and the duke of Britain : for that the duke's might have ends of utility and bargain ...
... counsellors , failed him , and would have betrayed him ; and that there was a great difference between the courtesies received from their master , and the duke of Britain : for that the duke's might have ends of utility and bargain ...
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... counsellors , peers , prelates , and chief judges . It discerneth also principally of four kinds of causes , forces , frauds , crimes various of stellionate , and the inchoations or middle acts towards crimes capital or heinous , not ...
... counsellors , peers , prelates , and chief judges . It discerneth also principally of four kinds of causes , forces , frauds , crimes various of stellionate , and the inchoations or middle acts towards crimes capital or heinous , not ...
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