The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Band 7,Teil 1Verner & Hood, 1808 |
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... King John ; whose minions , even in one year , exacted , on different pretences , no less a sum than eleven hundred marks . Some considerable expense had also been incurred by the rebuild- ing of the Refectory , and the Dormitory ; the ...
... King John ; whose minions , even in one year , exacted , on different pretences , no less a sum than eleven hundred marks . Some considerable expense had also been incurred by the rebuild- ing of the Refectory , and the Dormitory ; the ...
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... King , as appears from Hollinshed , heard of the Duke's approach , he sent the Duke of Buckingham , with some other noblemen , to inquire the reason of his coming in that hostile manner . The Duke answered that , he and his army were ...
... King , as appears from Hollinshed , heard of the Duke's approach , he sent the Duke of Buckingham , with some other noblemen , to inquire the reason of his coming in that hostile manner . The Duke answered that , he and his army were ...
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... King had not at first sought refuge in the Abbey , was considered as a fortunate occurrence , as in that case it was sup- posed it would have been plundered , as the town was , by the victorious party . The second battle of St. Alban's ...
... King had not at first sought refuge in the Abbey , was considered as a fortunate occurrence , as in that case it was sup- posed it would have been plundered , as the town was , by the victorious party . The second battle of St. Alban's ...
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... King on as- surance of safety ; but they were afterwards beheaded by the Queen's order . 6 " When the King was in a manner left alone , without any guard , Thomas Hoo , Esq . a man well learned in languages , and well read in the law ...
... King on as- surance of safety ; but they were afterwards beheaded by the Queen's order . 6 " When the King was in a manner left alone , without any guard , Thomas Hoo , Esq . a man well learned in languages , and well read in the law ...
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... King , Henry the Eighth . On his obtaining a pardon in the succeeding year , he was permitted , among other titles , to retain that of Abbot of St. Alban ; but Henry reserved all the revenues to himself . Wolsey dying in the November ...
... King , Henry the Eighth . On his obtaining a pardon in the succeeding year , he was permitted , among other titles , to retain that of Abbot of St. Alban ; but Henry reserved all the revenues to himself . Wolsey dying in the November ...
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Seite 381 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Seite 574 - Day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, shot with Silver Threads; her Train was very long, the End of it borne by a Marchioness; instead of a Chain, she had an oblong Collar of Gold and Jewels.
Seite 377 - And yet I lived to see this very gentleman, whom out of no ill will to him I thus describe, by multiplied good successes and by real (but usurped) power (having had a better tailor and more converse among good company) in my own eye, when for six weeks together I was a prisoner in his sergeant's hands and daily waited at Whitehall, appear of a great and majestic deportment and comely presence.
Seite 385 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Seite 574 - ... next came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow; and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Seite 118 - England, shall undergo fine and ransom of fortythousand pounds, that he shall be imprisoned 'in the Tower during the king's pleasure, that he shall for ever be incapable of any office or employment in the state or commonwealth, and that he shall never sit in parliament^ or come within the verge of the court.
Seite 377 - House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and' not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to...
Seite 432 - A Declaration of the free and well-affected People of England now in Arms ' (or shortly to be in Arms) ' against the tyrant Oliver Cromwell...
Seite 384 - And thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own consciences, and without, by good iron arms, they would as one man stand firmly and charge desperately.
Seite 427 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.