Memoirs of Henry the Eighth of England: With the Fortunes, Fates, and Characters of His Six WivesMiller, Orton, & Mulligan, 1856 - 441 pages |
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Page 181 - He is a prince of most royal courage, and hath a princely heart — for, rather than miss or want any part of his will, he will endanger one half of his kingdom. And I do assure you, I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber, sometimes for three hours together, to persuade him from his appetite, and could not prevail.
Page 181 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, He would not have given me over, in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding my service to God, but only my duty to my prince.
Page 176 - The king's counsel laboured to prove three allegations ; 1°. that the marriage between Arthur and Catherine had been consummated ; whence they inferred that her subsequent marriage with Henry was contrary to the divine law ; 2°. that supposing the case admitted of dispensation, yet the bull of Julius II. had been obtained under false pretences; and 3°. that the breve of dispensation produced by the queen, which remedied the defects of the bull, was an evident forgery. As Catherine declined the...
Page 178 - ... dwindled to one half of its natural size. In truth his misery is such, that his enemies, Englishmen as they are, cannot help pitying him ; still they will carry things to extremities. As for his legation, the seals, his authority, &c., he thinks no more of them.
Page 233 - ... their recognisances for each other; and most of the rest embraced the benefit of abjuration granted by the law *. Henry did not long remain a widower after his divorce from Anne of Cleves. The lords humbly besought...
Page 254 - ... their absence." He calls her " illustrious queen, and dearest mother." The youthful heir of England was at Hertford, with his preceptors, at the time of the last illness of his royal father. Henry VIII. expired at two o'clock in the morning of January...
Page 315 - The hour of my death draweth fast on, and, my case being such, the tender love 1 owe you forceth me with a few words to put you in remembrance of the health and safeguard of your soul ; •which you ought to prefer before all worldly matters, and before the care and tendering of your own body, for the which you have cast me into many miseries, and yourself into many cares. For...
Page 315 - ... body, for the which you have cast me into many miseries, and yourself into many cares. For my part I do pardon you all, yea, I do wish and devoutly pray God, that He will also pardon you.
Page 181 - Queen Catherine and himself; and then shall his grace's conscience know whether I have offended him or not. He is a prince of most royal courage ; rather than miss any part of his will, he will endanger...
Page 337 - Your wife I cannot be, both in respect of mine own unworthiness, and also because you have a queen already ; your mistress I will not...