History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... marriage of her daughter Elizabeth with King Henry , had nevertheless delivered her daughters out of sanctuary into King Richard's hands ,. should be cloistered in the nunnery of Bermondsey , and HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 27.
... marriage of her daughter Elizabeth with King Henry , had nevertheless delivered her daughters out of sanctuary into King Richard's hands ,. should be cloistered in the nunnery of Bermondsey , and HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 27.
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... hands : whereat there was much wondering ; that a weak woman , for the yielding to the menaces and promises of a tyrant , after such a distance of time , wherein 25 the King had shewed no displeasure nor alteration , but much more after ...
... hands : whereat there was much wondering ; that a weak woman , for the yielding to the menaces and promises of a tyrant , after such a distance of time , wherein 25 the King had shewed no displeasure nor alteration , but much more after ...
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... to both his brethren , King Edward and the duke of Clarence , and their lines , having had his hand in both their bloods , to disable their issues upon false and incompetent pretexts ; the one of 30 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... to both his brethren , King Edward and the duke of Clarence , and their lines , having had his hand in both their bloods , to disable their issues upon false and incompetent pretexts ; the one of 30 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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... hand . And therefore , awakened by so fresh and unexpected dangers , he entered into due consideration , 30 as well how to weed out the partakers of the former rebel- lion , as to kill the seeds of the like in time to come : and withal ...
... hand . And therefore , awakened by so fresh and unexpected dangers , he entered into due consideration , 30 as well how to weed out the partakers of the former rebel- lion , as to kill the seeds of the like in time to come : and withal ...
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... secret fears touching his own people , which he was therefore loth to arm , and put weapons into their hands . Yet notwithstanding , as a prudent and courageous Prince , he was not so averse from a war , but 46 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... secret fears touching his own people , which he was therefore loth to arm , and put weapons into their hands . Yet notwithstanding , as a prudent and courageous Prince , he was not so averse from a war , but 46 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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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.