History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... present to help himself ; whereby those casualties of the crown might in reason spare the purses of the subject ; especially in a time when he was in peace with all his neighbours . Some few 30 laws passed at that parliament , almost ...
... present to help himself ; whereby those casualties of the crown might in reason spare the purses of the subject ; especially in a time when he was in peace with all his neighbours . Some few 30 laws passed at that parliament , almost ...
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... present speech and votes of the people ; and it pieced better , and followed more close and handsomely , upon the bruit of Plantagenet's escape . But yet doubting that there 30 would be too near looking , and too much perspective into ...
... present speech and votes of the people ; and it pieced better , and followed more close and handsomely , upon the bruit of Plantagenet's escape . But yet doubting that there 30 would be too near looking , and too much perspective into ...
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... present as- " sembling : the one , a foreign business ; the other , matter of 20 " government at home . " The French King , as no doubt ye have heard , maketh " at this present hot war upon the duke of Britain . His " army is now before ...
... present as- " sembling : the one , a foreign business ; the other , matter of 20 " government at home . " The French King , as no doubt ye have heard , maketh " at this present hot war upon the duke of Britain . His " army is now before ...
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... present necessity , but much by reason of the old humour of those countries , where the memory of King Richard was so strong , that it lay like lees in the bottom of men's hearts ; 15 and if the vessel was but stirred , it would come up ...
... present necessity , but much by reason of the old humour of those countries , where the memory of King Richard was so strong , that it lay like lees in the bottom of men's hearts ; 15 and if the vessel was but stirred , it would come up ...
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... present , but out of providence of the future , to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of | the legislators in ancient and heroical times . First therefore he made a law , suitable to his own acts ...
... present , but out of providence of the future , to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of | the legislators in ancient and heroical times . First therefore he made a law , suitable to his own acts ...
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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.