History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... Richard been strongest , and most declared for the King's party , were returned knights and burgesses for the parliament ; whether 5 by care or recommendation from the state , or the voluntary inclination of the people ; many of which ...
... Richard been strongest , and most declared for the King's party , were returned knights and burgesses for the parliament ; whether 5 by care or recommendation from the state , or the voluntary inclination of the people ; many of which ...
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... Richard Ratcliffe , William Catesby , and many others of degree and quality . In which bills of attainders , nevertheless , there were contained many just and temperate clauses , savings , and pro- visoes , well shewing and fore ...
... Richard Ratcliffe , William Catesby , and many others of degree and quality . In which bills of attainders , nevertheless , there were contained many just and temperate clauses , savings , and pro- visoes , well shewing and fore ...
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... Richard , not only to his dignities , but to his fortunes and possessions , which were great to which he was moved also by a kind of gratitude , for that the duke was the man that moved the first stone against the tyranny of King Richard ...
... Richard , not only to his dignities , but to his fortunes and possessions , which were great to which he was moved also by a kind of gratitude , for that the duke was the man that moved the first stone against the tyranny of King Richard ...
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Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) Joseph Rawson Lumby. Richard Fox , the one bishop of Ely , the other bishop of Exeter ; vigilant men , and secret , and such as kept watch with him almost upon all men else . They had been both versed ...
Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) Joseph Rawson Lumby. Richard Fox , the one bishop of Ely , the other bishop of Exeter ; vigilant men , and secret , and such as kept watch with him almost upon all men else . They had been both versed ...
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... Richard the third , thought it would be a summer well spent to visit those parts , and by his presence and application of himself to reclaim and rectify those humours . But the King , in his 10 account of peace and calms , did much over ...
... Richard the third , thought it would be a summer well spent to visit those parts , and by his presence and application of himself to reclaim and rectify those humours . But the King , in his 10 account of peace and calms , did much over ...
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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.