 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 258 pages
...freedom, for which the City had once been famous, and urged the king not to suffer it to be rebuilt again "to be a bit in his mouth and a bridle upon his neck, but to keep it all open," and that his troops might enter whenever he thought necessary, "there being no... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 264 pages
...freedom, for which the City had once been famous, and urged the king not to suffer it to be rebuilt again " to be a bit in his mouth and a bridle upon his neck, but to keep it all open," and that his troops might enter whenever he thought necessary, " there being... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...down of that rebellious city, which was always an enemy to the Crown, His Msjesty would never suffer them to repair and build them up again, to be a bit in his mouth and a bridle upon his neck, biit would keep them all open, that his troops might enter upon them whenever he thought it for his... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Electronic books - 1911 - 382 pages
...down of that rebellious city, which was always an enemy to the Crown, his Majesty would never suffer them to repair and build them up again to be a bit...his troops might enter upon them whenever he thought it necessary for his service, there being no way to govern that rude multitude but by force." s Such... | |
 | Steven C. A. Pincus - History - 2002 - 528 pages
...excepted," for now London "that rebellious city which was always an enemy to the crown" could never again be "a bit in his mouth and a bridle upon his neck." May concluded that there was "no other way to govern that rude multitude but by force." 118 This interpretation... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1798 - 332 pages
...down of that rebellious City, " which was always an fc.nemy to the Crown, his " Majefty would never fuffer them to repair and * build them up again to be a Bit in his Mouth and " a Bridle upon his Nttk; but would kerp all open, *' that his Troops might enter upon them whenever * He thought iKc*ffory... | |
 | 1759 - 436 pages
...to the Crown, being now burned down, .his Majeity ought never to fufixr the building them up agjiin to be ' a bit in his mouth, and a bridle upon his neck ;' but fnould keep all open, that his troops might enter upon them, whenever he thought neceflary for his... | |
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... that this was the greatest blessing that God had ever conferred on him , his restoration only excepted ; for the walls and gates being now burned and thrown down of that rebellious city, which was always an enemy to the crown , his majesty would never... 
