The History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II.T. Davies ... Becket and De Hondt, and T. Cadell, 1771 - Great Britain |
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... court and the kingdom by their oppo- fite cabals and pretenfions . By his flattery and addrefs , he had fo infinuated himself into the good graces of the queen dowager , that , forgetting her ufual prudence and decency , the married him ...
... court and the kingdom by their oppo- fite cabals and pretenfions . By his flattery and addrefs , he had fo infinuated himself into the good graces of the queen dowager , that , forgetting her ufual prudence and decency , the married him ...
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... court , which , in general , demanded an abolition of the statutes lately made in favour of the reformation ; but the miniftry rejected their demands with con- tempt , at the fame time offering a pardon to all that would lay down their ...
... court , which , in general , demanded an abolition of the statutes lately made in favour of the reformation ; but the miniftry rejected their demands with con- tempt , at the fame time offering a pardon to all that would lay down their ...
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... court to the young monarch better than by a feeming zeal in the caufe . But he was still stedfaftly bent on en- larging his own power ; and as the last earl of Northumberland died without iffue or heirs , Warwick procured for himself a ...
... court to the young monarch better than by a feeming zeal in the caufe . But he was still stedfaftly bent on en- larging his own power ; and as the last earl of Northumberland died without iffue or heirs , Warwick procured for himself a ...
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... court , was fo aftonished at his early progrefs , that he extols him as a prodigy of nature . It is probable , however , that fo much flattery as he received would have con- tributed to corrupt him , as it had formerly corrupted his ...
... court , was fo aftonished at his early progrefs , that he extols him as a prodigy of nature . It is probable , however , that fo much flattery as he received would have con- tributed to corrupt him , as it had formerly corrupted his ...
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... court to the queen , had promifed to officiate in the Latin fervice , he drew up a declaration , in which he entirely cleared himself of the afper- fion indeed , but incurred what was much more terrible , the queen's refentment . On the ...
... court to the queen , had promifed to officiate in the Latin fervice , he drew up a declaration , in which he entirely cleared himself of the afper- fion indeed , but incurred what was much more terrible , the queen's refentment . On the ...
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Page 247 - Pym, and Strode. The articles were, That they had traitorously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom, to deprive the...
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