History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... Britain ; for that the duke had received and succoured 10 Lewis duke of Orleans , and other of the French nobility , which had taken arms against their King . Wherefore King Charles , being resolved upon that war , knew well he could ...
... Britain ; for that the duke had received and succoured 10 Lewis duke of Orleans , and other of the French nobility , which had taken arms against their King . Wherefore King Charles , being resolved upon that war , knew well he could ...
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... Britain , for that he had received and succoured those that were traitors and declared enemies unto his person and state . That they were no mean , dis- tressed , and calamitous persons that fled to him for refuge , but of so great ...
... Britain , for that he had received and succoured those that were traitors and declared enemies unto his person and state . That they were no mean , dis- tressed , and calamitous persons that fled to him for refuge , but of so great ...
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... Britain to the crown of France , either by war , or by marriage with the daughter of Britain , the ambassadors bare aloof from it as from a rock , knowing that it made most 20 against them . And therefore by all means declined any ...
... Britain to the crown of France , either by war , or by marriage with the daughter of Britain , the ambassadors bare aloof from it as from a rock , knowing that it made most 20 against them . And therefore by all means declined any ...
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... Britain , the King answered in few words ; that the French King , and the duke of Britain , were the two persons to whom he was most obliged of all men ; and that he should think himself very unhappy , if things should go so between ...
... Britain , the King answered in few words ; that the French King , and the duke of Britain , were the two persons to whom he was most obliged of all men ; and that he should think himself very unhappy , if things should go so between ...
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... Britain itself , which was not small ; but chiefly in respect of the great party that the duke of Orleans had in the kingdom of France , and thereby means to stir up civil troubles , to divert the French 10 King from the enterprise of ...
... Britain itself , which was not small ; but chiefly in respect of the great party that the duke of Orleans had in the kingdom of France , and thereby means to stir up civil troubles , to divert the French 10 King from the enterprise of ...
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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.