History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... Queen , upon whose decease , either with issue , or without issue , he was to give place and be removed . And though he should obtain by parliament to be continued , yet he knew there was a very great difference between a King that ...
... Queen , upon whose decease , either with issue , or without issue , he was to give place and be removed . And though he should obtain by parliament to be continued , yet he knew there was a very great difference between a King that ...
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... Queen dowager her mother ; which accord- ingly she soon after did , accompanied with many noblemen and ladies of honour . In the mean season the King set 20 forwards by easy journeys to the city of London , receiving the acclamations ...
... Queen dowager her mother ; which accord- ingly she soon after did , accompanied with many noblemen and ladies of honour . In the mean season the King set 20 forwards by easy journeys to the city of London , receiving the acclamations ...
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... Queen might give any countenance of participation of title ; the other , lest in the entailing of the crown to himself , which he hoped to obtain by parliament , the votes of the parliament might any ways 15 reflect upon her . About ...
... Queen might give any countenance of participation of title ; the other , lest in the entailing of the crown to himself , which he hoped to obtain by parliament , the votes of the parliament might any ways 15 reflect upon her . About ...
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... Queen was delivered of her . first son , whom the King , in honour of the British race , of which himself was , named Arthur , according to the name 25 of that ancient worthy King of the Britains , in whose acts there is truth enough to ...
... Queen was delivered of her . first son , whom the King , in honour of the British race , of which himself was , named Arthur , according to the name 25 of that ancient worthy King of the Britains , in whose acts there is truth enough to ...
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... Queen , not vouchsafing her the honour of a matrimonial crown ; for the coronation of her was not till almost two years after , when danger had taught him what to do . But much more when it was spread abroad , whether by error , or the ...
... Queen , not vouchsafing her the honour of a matrimonial crown ; for the coronation of her was not till almost two years after , when danger had taught him what to do . But much more when it was spread abroad , whether by error , or the ...
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Page 270 - 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.