Historical Portraits of the Tudor Dynasty and the Reformation Period, Band 4J. Hodges, 1887 |
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Ambassador amongst Anjou Archbishop Ascham assassins became Bishop Bothwell Burnet Camden Campion Castle Catholic Church conduct Council Court courtiers Darnley death Despatches Duke of Norfolk Earl enemies English Essex fact father favour favourite feeling Fotheringay Castle France French Froude George Douglas hands Henry Highness historian honour husband Ireland Irish James Jane Kennedy John Knox King Lady Lennox Lethington letters Lochleven London Lord Burleigh Lord Leicester Lord Moray marriage Mary Stuart Mary's Miss Strickland monarch Morton murder never nobles O'Neill occasion Papers party persecution person Philip present priest prisoner Protestant Puritan Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary Queen of England Queen of Scots Queens of Scotland rack Randolph reader received Reformation Regent religion Rizzio Roger Ascham Royal mistress scaffold scene Scotch secret Shane O'Neill Sir William Cecil Sovereign Spanish Sydney Thomas Throckmorton took Tower treason Tutbury Castle Tytler visited Walsingham whilst Whitgift woman writes young
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Seite 495 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death \ whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Seite 532 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Seite 103 - ... 2. The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a...
Seite 216 - Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord Keeper led the brawls, The seals and maces danced before him.
Seite 411 - She showeth a disposition to speak much, to be bold, to be pleasant, and to be very familiar. She showeth a great desire to be avenged of her enemies. She showeth a readiness to expose herself to all perils in hope of victory. She...
Seite 532 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 217 - Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may assure you they are honest. But above all, govern your will and affections, by the will and Word of your Creator; in me, beholding the end of this world, with all her vanities.
Seite 532 - 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...
Seite 41 - Gospel; for they spare not to come out of Spain, from Rome, and from Rheims, by long toil and dangerous travelling hither, where they know peril of death awaiteth them, and no reward or riches is to be found, only to draw the people unto the Church of Rome...