History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... Brittany Great Council Speech of Chancellor Morton ( p . 53 ) was made Solemn Embassy from England to France Henry's third 2 Parliament First succours sent by Henry to Brittany Northern subsidy riot Embassy from Charles VIII to England ...
... Brittany Great Council Speech of Chancellor Morton ( p . 53 ) was made Solemn Embassy from England to France Henry's third 2 Parliament First succours sent by Henry to Brittany Northern subsidy riot Embassy from Charles VIII to England ...
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... Brittany took an oath to Elizabeth queen of Edward IV to marry her eldest daughter . 21. by plea and arms . The plea which had always been put forward on behalf of the Lancastrian line was that there had been a wrong succession since ...
... Brittany took an oath to Elizabeth queen of Edward IV to marry her eldest daughter . 21. by plea and arms . The plea which had always been put forward on behalf of the Lancastrian line was that there had been a wrong succession since ...
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... Brittany , but kept up a communication between England and Flanders , which enabled him to supply the earl of Richmond with valuable information . After the coronation of Henry VII , Morton's attainder was reversed , and on his return ...
... Brittany , but kept up a communication between England and Flanders , which enabled him to supply the earl of Richmond with valuable information . After the coronation of Henry VII , Morton's attainder was reversed , and on his return ...
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... Brittany . The 30. prejudge , i . e . entertain a prejudice against , doom prematurely . The verb has well - nigh died out , but its noun prejudice remains . verb is found Reliq . Wotton , p . 576 : " Yet I will not anticipate or ...
... Brittany . The 30. prejudge , i . e . entertain a prejudice against , doom prematurely . The verb has well - nigh died out , but its noun prejudice remains . verb is found Reliq . Wotton , p . 576 : " Yet I will not anticipate or ...
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... Brittany , whom he did afterwards marry when she was the widow of Charles VIII . 27. inwardness = confidential communication . P. 44 , line 1. Duke of Britain . This was Francis , the last duke of Brittany . Grafton says that Charles ...
... Brittany , whom he did afterwards marry when she was the widow of Charles VIII . 27. inwardness = confidential communication . P. 44 , line 1. Duke of Britain . This was Francis , the last duke of Brittany . Grafton says that Charles ...
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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.