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Page 204 - such honor, good your Grace let not any light fancy or bad council of mine enemies withdraw your princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good Grace ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife, and the infant princess your daughter.
Page 71 - you will find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten—a crown of glory." " I go,'' replied the King, " from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can have place." " You exchange," replied the Bishop,
Page 204 - all true affection than you have ever found in Anne Bolen, with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your Grace's pleasure had been so pleased. Neither did 1 at any time so far forget myself in my exaltation
Page 409 - diligently as I served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs: but this is the just reward that I
Page 204 - hath been pleasing' to your ears, then let me obtain this request; and I will so leave to trouble your Grace any farther, with mine earnest prayers to the Trinity to have your Grace in his good keeping, and to direct you in all your actions. From my doleful prison in the Tower, this sixth May. " Your most loyal and ever faithful wife,
Page 72 - hypocrites, who, to satisfy their own enmity, involved a whole nation in the guilt of treason. Charles was executed in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the twenty-fourth of his reign. He was of a middling stature, robust, and well proportioned. His visage was pleasing, but
Page 283 - My Lord,—Almighty God has blessed his Majesty's arms in the late battle by a great victory over the fleet of the enemy, whom I attacked at sun-set, on the 1st of August, off the Mouth of the Nile. The enemy were moored in a strong line of battle for defending the
Page 190 - to me to give liberty to me to say any thing to you. As that is a tender of my humble reasons, and judgment, and opinion to them, and if I think they are such, and will be such to them, and are faithful servants, and will be so to the supreme authority, and the legislative
Page 87 - As thy arms, O Jesus, were extended on the cross, so with the outstretched arms of thy mercy, receive me and forgive my sins." She then prepared for the block by taking off her veil and upper garments, and one of the executioners rudely endeavouring to assist, she gently checked him, and said with a smile,
Page 54 - no faithful friend which will deliver me of him whose life will be my death, and whose death will be the preservation of my life?" This saying was much noted of them which were present, and especially of one called Sir Piers of Exton. This knight incontinently departed from the