| Lucy Hake - 1828 - 334 Seiten
...writer, who has taken no small pains to satisfy himself and the world in this particular, " / take to be a vain and idle romance, derogatory both to the founder and the order; first published by Polydore Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - 1840 - 356 Seiten
...insert the judgment of Dr. Heylin, who took great pains in this particular. ' This,' says he, ' I took to be a vain and idle romance, derogatory both to the founder and the order first published by Polydore Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 392 Seiten
...insert the judgment of Dr. Heylin, who took great pains in this particular. ' This,' says he, ' I took to be a vain and idle romance, derogatory both to the founder and the order, first published by Polydore Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no... | |
| Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...popular story of the origin of that order's insignia, too well known to be recapitulated, declared it to be a " vain and idle romance, derogatory both to the founder and the order ; first published by Polydore Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no... | |
| 1888 - 920 Seiten
...whether she was Katherine Montacute or Joan the Fair Maid of Kent, while Heyjyn rejects the legend as "a vain and idle romance derogatory both to the founder and the order, first published by Polydor Vergil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no better... | |
| John Ruskin - 1907 - 868 Seiten
...Garter, 1672, p. 179), and Guillim (Display of Heraldrie, p. 171) reject the tale. "It is," says Heylyn, "a vain and idle Romance, derogatory both to the Founder and the Order, first published by Pol. Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no better... | |
| 1909 - 954 Seiten
...never a favourite at the Court of Edward (II. Dr. Heylin writes in IG.VJ anent this tale: " This I take to be a vain and idle romance, derogatory both to the founder and the Order, first published by Polydor Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England.'1 The other most popular \irsion... | |
| Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1923 - 1010 Seiten
...Countess of Salisbury was the heroine of the adventure, . . . while Heylyn rejects the legend as ' a vain and idle romance derogatory both to the founder and the order, first published by Polydor Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England, and by him taken upon no better... | |
| Gordon McMullan, David Matthews - 2007 - 196 Seiten
...Countess of Salisburies Garter, of which Lady, the King formerly had been enamoured. But this I take to be a vain and idle Romance, derogatory both to the Founder, and the order; first published by Polydore Virgil, a stranger to the affairs of England, & by him taken upon no better... | |
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