History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... bishop of Concordia was sent as nuncio from Pope Alexander the sixth to both 20 Kings , to move a peace between them . For Pope Alexan- der , finding himself pent and locked up by a league and association of the principal states of ...
... bishop of Concordia was sent as nuncio from Pope Alexander the sixth to both 20 Kings , to move a peace between them . For Pope Alexan- der , finding himself pent and locked up by a league and association of the principal states of ...
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... bishops and a few more , yet nevertheless in his secret in- tentions he had no purpose to go , through with any war upon France . But the truth was , that he did but traffic with that war , to make his return in money . He knew 15 well ...
... bishops and a few more , yet nevertheless in his secret in- tentions he had no purpose to go , through with any war upon France . But the truth was , that he did but traffic with that war , to make his return in money . He knew 15 well ...
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... bishop Morton the Chan- cellor used , to raise up the benevolence to higher rates ; 10 and some called it his fork , and some his crutch . For he had couched an article in the instructions to the commis- sioners who were to levy the ...
... bishop Morton the Chan- cellor used , to raise up the benevolence to higher rates ; 10 and some called it his fork , and some his crutch . For he had couched an article in the instructions to the commis- sioners who were to levy the ...
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... bishop of Exeter , and the lord Daubeney , governor of Calais , should give a meeting unto the lord Cordes , for the treaty of a peace . But himself nevertheless and his 5 army , the fifteenth of October , removed from Calais , and in ...
... bishop of Exeter , and the lord Daubeney , governor of Calais , should give a meeting unto the lord Cordes , for the treaty of a peace . But himself nevertheless and his 5 army , the fifteenth of October , removed from Calais , and in ...
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... bishop Fox , Smith , Bray , Lovel , Oliver " King , David Owen , Riseley , Turberville , Tiler , Chomley , 15 " Empson , James Hobart , John Cut , Garth , Henry Wyat , " and such other caitiffs and villains of birth , which by " subtile ...
... bishop Fox , Smith , Bray , Lovel , Oliver " King , David Owen , Riseley , Turberville , Tiler , Chomley , 15 " Empson , James Hobart , John Cut , Garth , Henry Wyat , " and such other caitiffs and villains of birth , which by " subtile ...
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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.