Original Letters, Illustrative of English History, Band 1

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Henry Ellis
Harding and Lepard, 1827
 

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Seite 178 - ... assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber on my knees, the space of an hour or two, to persuade him from his will and appetite : but I could never bring to pass to dissuade him therefrom. Therefore, master Kingston, if it chance hereafter, you to be one of his privy council, as for your wisdom and other qualities ye are meet to be, I warn you to be well advised and assured what matter ye put in his head, for ye shall never put it out again.
Seite 178 - He is sure a prince of a royal courage, and hath a princely heart; and rather than he will either miss or want any part of his will or appetite, he will put the loss of one half of his realm in danger. For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber on my knees, the space of an hour or two, to persuade him from his will and appetite: but I could never bring to pass to dissuade him therefrom.
Seite 25 - Presteigne' from Machynlleth on December 13th, 1402: SIR EDMUND MORTIMER to 'gentles'. I greet you much and make known to you that Oweyn Glyndwr has raised a quarrel of which the object is, if King Richard be alive, to restore him to his crown; and if not that, my honoured nephew,* who is the right heir to the said crown, shall be king of England, and that the said Oweyn will assert his right in Wales.
Seite 5 - But we hope we shall do the a privy thing ; a rope, a ladder, and a ryng ; high on gallows for to henge. And thus shall be your endyng : and he that made the be ther to helpyng : and we on our behalf shall be well willyng : for thy Lettre is knowledging. Written,
Seite 21 - It was one of the royal demesnes of the princes of South Wales, and with seven others, was given as a dowry with Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tew Dwr, to Gerald de Windsor, an ancestor of the Carew family.
Seite 271 - Musick, intitled • The first Book of selected Church Musick, collected by John Barnard, one of the minor canons of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul,' and published in the year 1641, this Anthem is given to William Mundy, but the late Dr. Aldrich, after taking great pains to ascertain the author of it, pronounced it to be a genuine composition of King Henry VIIIth.
Seite 150 - England, by even portions ; and moreover I promise to them that if any surmise or evil report be made to me of them by any person or persons, that then I shall not give thereunto faith nor credence, nor...
Seite 176 - The Othe of the Kings Highnes at every Coronation. " The King shall then swere that he shall kepe and mayntene the lawfull right and the libertees of old tyme graunted by the ryghtuous Cristen Kings of Englond to the HOLY CHIRCHE off INGLAND...
Seite 41 - Trinity, your people gained the field, and slew of them (by fair account) on the field, some say eight hundred, and some say a thousand, being questioned on pain of death. Nevertheless, whether on such an account it were one or the other, I would not contend. And, to inform you fully of all that has, been done, I send you a person worthy of credit in this case, my faithful servant, the bearer of this letter, who was present at the engagement, and did his duty very satisfactorily, as he does on all...

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