History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... in good part as men use to do , that practise to borrow money when they have no need . About this time the King called unto his privy council John Morton and Richard Fox , the one bishop of Ely , the 18 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... in good part as men use to do , that practise to borrow money when they have no need . About this time the King called unto his privy council John Morton and Richard Fox , the one bishop of Ely , the 18 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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... than assurance . Thus was fuel prepared for the ' spark the spark , that afterwards kindled such a fire and combustion , was at the first contemptible . There was a subtle priest called Richard Simon ' , 22 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... than assurance . Thus was fuel prepared for the ' spark the spark , that afterwards kindled such a fire and combustion , was at the first contemptible . There was a subtle priest called Richard Simon ' , 22 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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... called Richard Simon ' , that lived in Oxford , and had to his pupil a baker's son , named Lambert Simnell , of the age of some fifteen years , a comely youth , and well favoured , not without some extraordinary dignity , and grace of ...
... called Richard Simon ' , that lived in Oxford , and had to his pupil a baker's son , named Lambert Simnell , of the age of some fifteen years , a comely youth , and well favoured , not without some extraordinary dignity , and grace of ...
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... called his council together at the charter - house at 25 Shene ; which council was held with great secrecy , but the open decrees thereof , which presently came abroad , were three . The first was , that the Queen dowager , for that she ...
... called his council together at the charter - house at 25 Shene ; which council was held with great secrecy , but the open decrees thereof , which presently came abroad , were three . The first was , that the Queen dowager , for that she ...
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... called a council of war , at which was consulted whether it were best to protract 10 time , or speedily to set upon the rebels . In which council the King himself , whose continual vigilancy did suck in sometimes causeless suspicions ...
... called a council of war , at which was consulted whether it were best to protract 10 time , or speedily to set upon the rebels . In which council the King himself , whose continual vigilancy did suck in sometimes causeless suspicions ...
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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.