History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... mean time , who at the first when he heard what was done in Ireland , though it troubled 30 him , yet thought he should be well enough able to scatter the Irish as a flight of birds , and rattle away this swarm of bees with their King ...
... mean time , who at the first when he heard what was done in Ireland , though it troubled 30 him , yet thought he should be well enough able to scatter the Irish as a flight of birds , and rattle away this swarm of bees with their King ...
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... means ; and King 5 Henry of England as well somewhat obnoxious to him for his favours and benefits , as busied in his particular troubles at home . There was also a fair and specious occasion offered him to hide his ambition , and to ...
... means ; and King 5 Henry of England as well somewhat obnoxious to him for his favours and benefits , as busied in his particular troubles at home . There was also a fair and specious occasion offered him to hide his ambition , and to ...
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... mean , dis- tressed , and calamitous persons that fled to him for refuge , but of so great quality , as it was apparent that they came not thither to protect their own fortune , but to infest and invade his ; the head of them being the ...
... mean , dis- tressed , and calamitous persons that fled to him for refuge , but of so great quality , as it was apparent that they came not thither to protect their own fortune , but to infest and invade his ; the head of them being the ...
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... means declined any mention thereof , but contrariwise interlaced , in their con- ference with the King , the assured purpose of their master to match with the daughter of Maximilian ; and entertained the King also with some wandering ...
... means declined any mention thereof , but contrariwise interlaced , in their con- ference with the King , the assured purpose of their master to match with the daughter of Maximilian ; and entertained the King also with some wandering ...
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... means for him as a Christian King , and a Io common friend to them , to satisfy all obligations both to God and man , but to offer himself for a mediator of an accord and peace between them ; by which course he doubted not but their ...
... means for him as a Christian King , and a Io common friend to them , to satisfy all obligations both to God and man , but to offer himself for a mediator of an accord and peace between them ; by which course he doubted not but their ...
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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.