History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... lady Elizabeth gave him the heart ; so that both knee and heart did truly bow before him . He on the other side with great wisdom , not ignorant of the affections and fears of the people , to disperse the conceit and terror of a ...
... lady Elizabeth gave him the heart ; so that both knee and heart did truly bow before him . He on the other side with great wisdom , not ignorant of the affections and fears of the people , to disperse the conceit and terror of a ...
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... lady Elizabeth herself . But howsoever he both truly intended it , and desired also it should be so believed , the better to extinguish envy and contradiction to his other purposes , yet was he resolved in himself not to proceed to the ...
... lady Elizabeth herself . But howsoever he both truly intended it , and desired also it should be so believed , the better to extinguish envy and contradiction to his other purposes , yet was he resolved in himself not to proceed to the ...
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... For that which concerned the entailing of the crown , more than that he was true to his own will , that he would not endure any mention of the lady 25 30 Elizabeth , no not in the nature of special entail 14 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... For that which concerned the entailing of the crown , more than that he was true to his own will , that he would not endure any mention of the lady 25 30 Elizabeth , no not in the nature of special entail 14 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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... lady Elizabeth : which day of marriage was celebrated with greater triumph and demon- strations , especially on the people's part , of joy and gladness , 20 than the days either of his entry or coronation ; which the King rather noted ...
... lady Elizabeth : which day of marriage was celebrated with greater triumph and demon- strations , especially on the people's part , of joy and gladness , 20 than the days either of his entry or coronation ; which the King rather noted ...
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... lady Margaret . And his men , forsaken of their captain , 10 did presently submit themselves to the duke . The Staffords likewise , and their forces , hearing what had happened to the lord Lovel , in whose success their chief trust was ...
... lady Margaret . And his men , forsaken of their captain , 10 did presently submit themselves to the duke . The Staffords likewise , and their forces , hearing what had happened to the lord Lovel , in whose success their chief trust was ...
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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.