The History of the Reigns of Edward V. and Richard IIIStalker, 1789 - 72 pages |
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Page 89 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 63 - ... sisters, and divers others, that were nearest him in his childhood ; together with all passages, some secret, some common, that were fit for a child's memory, until the death of King Edward. Then she added the particulars of the time from the king's death, until he and his brother were committed to the Tower, as well during the time he was abroad as while he was in sanctuary.
Page 81 - High and mighty king, your grace, and these your nobles here present, may be pleased benignly to bow your ears to hear the tragedy of a young man, that by right ought to hold in his hand the ball of a kingdom; but by fortune is made himself a ball, tossed from misery to misery, and from place to place.
Page 135 - A miraculous crucifix had been kept at Boxley, in Kent, and bore the appellation of the " rood of grace." The lips, and eyes, and head of the image moved on the approach of its votaries. Hilsey, bishop of Rochester, broke the crucifix at St. Paul's Cross, and showed to the whole people the springs and wheels by which it had been secretly moved.
Page 89 - ... hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only to my prince. Therefore, let me advise you, if you be one of the privy-council, as by your wisdom you are fit, take care what you put into the king's head, for you can never put it out again.
Page 43 - Europe, importing, that Henry and Francis, with fourteen aids, would be ready, in the plains of Picardy, to answer all comers that were gentlemen, at tilt, tournament, and barriers.
Page 33 - The rather, for that you know the king is a good husband, and but a steward in effect for the public ; and that what comes from you is but as moisture drawn from the earth, which gathers into a cloud. and falls back upon the earth again. And you know well how the kingdoms about you grow more and more in greatness, and the times are stirring, and therefore not fit to find the king with an empty purse.
Page 21 - So that (in a kind of mattacina* of human fortune) he turned a broacht that had worn a crown ; whereas fortune commonly doth not bring in a comedy or farce after a tragedy. — The queen was crowned, &.C. about two years after the marriage, like an old christening that had stayed long for god-fathers. — Desirous to...
Page 40 - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes. This bred a decay of people, and, by consequence, a decay of towns, churches, tithes, and the like.
Page 41 - ... a great part of the lands of the kingdom unto the hold and occupation of the yeomanry or middle people, of a condition between gentlemen and cottagers or peasants.