 Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. Yours,...  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth - Page 287by Lucy Aikin - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Classical philology - 1823 - 418 pages
...Bishop of Ely, to exchange some lands belonging to his see, writes the following tender billet : " Proud Prelate, " I understand you are backward in...your agreement : but I would have you to know, that 1, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and, if you do not 1 The Secretary's Assistant, 12mo.... | |
 | Classical philology - 1823 - 418 pages
...Bishop of Ely, to exchange some lands belonging to his see, writes the following tender billet : « Proud Prelate, " I understand you are backward in...your agreement : but I would have you to know, that 1, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and, if you do not ' The Secretary's Assistant, 12mo.... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 500 pages
...written to a bishop of Ely, and preserved in the register of that see. It is in these words : fraud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement; but I would have you know, that I who made you what you are can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
 | William Watson (F.A.S.) - Wisbech (England) - 1827 - 796 pages
...the effect rather of compulsion than inclination, by the letter from the queen to bishop Heton : " Proud prelate, I " understand you are backward in...and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, I will unfrock " you. Your'a, as you demean yourself, Elizabeth." Steventon's Appendix to Bentham's... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...resisted the insolent sacrilege ; but the queen soon made him surrender by the following letter : — " Proud Prelate, — I understand you are backward in...you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not faithfully fulfil your engagement, by G — I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself,... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 492 pages
...queen's, written to a bishop of Ely, and preserved in the register of that see. It is in these words : — Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would force you know, that I, who made you, what-you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil... | |
 | John Rutter - Caves - 1829 - 460 pages
...in complying with our agreement: but I would have you know, that I, who made jou what you are, ean unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by I will immediately unfrock you. " Yours, as you demean yourself, "ELIZABETH."' t See Sir John Harrington's... | |
 | M. Thomas Shaw - Wharfdale (England) - 1830 - 206 pages
...following letter, which made him comply. " PROUD PRELATE ! " I understand you are backward in com" plying with your agreement ; but I would have you " to know,...you do not forthwith fulfil your " engagement, by — 1 will immediately unfrock you. " Your's as you demean yourself. ELIZABETH." Barden Tower was mostly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1831 - 542 pages
...the bishop of Ely, and which is preserved in the register of that see : it is in these words : — " Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but 1 would have you know, that I who made you what you are, can unmake you, and if you do not forthwith... | |
 | Tales - 1832 - 296 pages
...- ;•»?• il t LXXX1V. ANECDOTE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. IN A LETTER TO DOCTOR BEATON, BISHOP OF ELY. PROUD PRELATE, I UNDERSTAND you are backward in complying...and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, as sure as I am Queen of England, I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, As you demean yourself, ELIZABETH.... | |
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