History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... things succeeded well he should be put down , and the true Plantagenet received ; wherein nevertheless the earl of Lincoln had his particular hopes . After they were come into Ireland , and that the party took 5 courage , by seeing ...
... things succeeded well he should be put down , and the true Plantagenet received ; wherein nevertheless the earl of Lincoln had his particular hopes . After they were come into Ireland , and that the party took 5 courage , by seeing ...
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... thing to the people of Eng- land , to have a King brought in to them upon the shoulders of Irish and Dutch , of which their army was in substance compounded . Neither was it a thing done with any great judgment on the party of the ...
... thing to the people of Eng- land , to have a King brought in to them upon the shoulders of Irish and Dutch , of which their army was in substance compounded . Neither was it a thing done with any great judgment on the party of the ...
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... things near 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 ...
... things near 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 ...
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... things should go so between them , as he should not be able to acquit himself in gratitude towards them both ; and ... thing touching the re- annexing of Britain , as the ambassadors had avoided to mention it save that he gave a little ...
... things should go so between them , as he should not be able to acquit himself in gratitude towards them both ; and ... thing touching the re- annexing of Britain , as the ambassadors had avoided to mention it save that he gave a little ...
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... things amiss , as afterwards appeared . He sent 15 therefore forthwith to the French King , Christopher Urswick , his chaplain , a person by him much trusted and employed : choosing him the rather , because he was a churchman , as best ...
... things amiss , as afterwards appeared . He sent 15 therefore forthwith to the French King , Christopher Urswick , his chaplain , a person by him much trusted and employed : choosing him the rather , because he was a churchman , as best ...
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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.