Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal Letters; from Autographs in the British Museum, and One Or Two Other Collections. 2d ser

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Harding and Lepard, 1827
 

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Pàgina 162 - 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.
Pàgina 11 - 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.
Pàgina 135 - Richard by the Grace of God King of England and of Fraunce, and Lord...
Pàgina 162 - ... 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.
Pàgina 15 - 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.
Pàgina xv - 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,
Pàgina 30 - I would not contend. And, to inform you fully of all that has been done, I send you a person worthy of...
Pàgina 57 - Whan at Hampton he made the great dromons, Which passed other great ships of all the commons ; The Trinitie, the Grace de Dieu, the holy Ghost, And other moe, which as nowe bee lost.
Pàgina 92 - Street, hoodless (save a kerchief), to Paul's, where she offered her taper at the high altar. On the Wednesday next she landed at the Swan in Thames Street, and...
Pàgina 82 - This eventful period," well observes Sir Henry Ellis, " though removed from us scarcely more than three centuries, is still among the darkest on our annals. Its records are confused, mutilated, and disjointed. They who wrote history in it, had no talents for the task ; and there was a ferocity abroad among the partizans of both the rival houses, which prevented many from even assembling the materials of history."* The paucity of documents illustrating this period has, indeed, long -f~ been a matter...

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