History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Page 73
... statutes incite by all means merchant - strangers , to bring in all sorts of commodities ; having for end cheapness , and not looking to the point of state concerning the naval power . The King also made a statute in that parliament ...
... statutes incite by all means merchant - strangers , to bring in all sorts of commodities ; having for end cheapness , and not looking to the point of state concerning the naval power . The King also made a statute in that parliament ...
Page 74
... statutes were made that parliament , but these were the principal . And here I do desire those 5 into whose hands this work shall fall , that they do take in good part my long insisting upon the laws that were made in this King's reign ...
... statutes were made that parliament , but these were the principal . And here I do desire those 5 into whose hands this work shall fall , that they do take in good part my long insisting upon the laws that were made in this King's reign ...
Page 93
... statutes conducing thereunto : as , the severe punishing of mort - pays and keeping back of sol- diers ' wages in captains ... statute for the dispersing of the stand- ard of the exchequer throughout England ; thereby to size weights and ...
... statutes conducing thereunto : as , the severe punishing of mort - pays and keeping back of sol- diers ' wages in captains ... statute for the dispersing of the stand- ard of the exchequer throughout England ; thereby to size weights and ...
Page 127
... statutes of England were made to be of force in Ireland : for before they were not , neither are any now in force in Ireland , which were 30 made in England since that time ; which was the tenth year of the King . About this time began ...
... statutes of England were made to be of force in Ireland : for before they were not , neither are any now in force in Ireland , which were 30 made in England since that time ; which was the tenth year of the King . About this time began ...
Page 134
... statute made during the minority of a King , should bind him or his successors , except it were confirmed by the King under his great seal at his full age . But the first act that passed in King IO Edward the sixth's time , was an act ...
... statute made during the minority of a King , should bind him or his successors , except it were confirmed by the King under his great seal at his full age . But the first act that passed in King IO Edward the sixth's time , was an act ...
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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.