The Historians' History of the World: England, 1485-1642Henry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 - World History |
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... Lady Jane Grey , 238. Elizabeth a prisoner , 241. The queen's marriage with Philip II , 243. The submission to Rome , 244. The persecutions begin , 246. John Foxe's account of Taylor's death , 248. Further persecutions , 251. The last ...
... Lady Jane Grey , 238. Elizabeth a prisoner , 241. The queen's marriage with Philip II , 243. The submission to Rome , 244. The persecutions begin , 246. John Foxe's account of Taylor's death , 248. Further persecutions , 251. The last ...
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... lady Margaret . And his men , forsaken of their captain , did presently submit themselves to the duke . The Staffords likewise , and their forces , hearing what had happened to the lord Lovell ( in whose success their chief trust was ) ...
... lady Margaret . And his men , forsaken of their captain , did presently submit themselves to the duke . The Staffords likewise , and their forces , hearing what had happened to the lord Lovell ( in whose success their chief trust was ) ...
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... lady Catharine Grey and Mistress Ditton went under the table , and sate at her feet . while the countesses of Oxford and Rivers knelt on each side , and at certeyne tymys helde a kerchief byfor her grace . " The king viewed both the ...
... lady Catharine Grey and Mistress Ditton went under the table , and sate at her feet . while the countesses of Oxford and Rivers knelt on each side , and at certeyne tymys helde a kerchief byfor her grace . " The king viewed both the ...
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... lady . The contract was void , he said , because Brittany was a fief of France , and the lord could control the marriage of an heiress who was his vassal . This argument was supported by the emphatic presence of a French army ; and the ...
... lady . The contract was void , he said , because Brittany was a fief of France , and the lord could control the marriage of an heiress who was his vassal . This argument was supported by the emphatic presence of a French army ; and the ...
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... Lady Brompton , the wife of one of the out- laws . With this clue Henry was satisfied , and July 13th , 1493 , despatched Sir Edward Poynings and Dr. Warham as his ambassadors to the archduke Philip , the sovereign of Burgundy , to ...
... Lady Brompton , the wife of one of the out- laws . With this clue Henry was satisfied , and July 13th , 1493 , despatched Sir Edward Poynings and Dr. Warham as his ambassadors to the archduke Philip , the sovereign of Burgundy , to ...
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Page 380 - MY loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Page 426 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave.
Page 393 - For the Queen! For the Queen! A plot is laid for my life!
Page 542 - Sir, my consent shall more acquit you herein to God than all the world can do besides. To a willing man there is no injury done.
Page 50 - The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and, whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman...
Page 48 - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Page 472 - I think the Dane hath strangely wrought on our good English nobles; for those, whom I never could get to taste good liquor, now follow the fashion, and wallow in beastly delights. The ladies abandon their sobriety, and are seen to roll about in intoxication.
Page 116 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Page 454 - Sir, the knee-timber of your Voyage is Money; spare your purse in this particular, for upon my life you have a sufficient Pardon for all that is passed already, the King having under his Broad- Seal made you Admiral of your Fleet, and given you power of the Martial Law over your Officers and Soldiers.
Page 518 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.