The Political History of England in Twelve Volumes: Fisher, H.A.L. From the accession of Henry VII to the death of Henry VIII (1485-1547)

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William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole
Longmans, Green and Company, 1906
 

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Pàgina 9 - In one single street, named the Strand, leading to St Paul's there are fifty-two goldsmiths' shops, so rich and full of silver vessels, great and small, that in all the shops in Milan, Rome, Venice and Florence put together, I do not think there would be found so many of the magnificence that are to be seen in London.
Pàgina 105 - ... provision for him, as the same Master John tells me. And it is said that, in the spring, his Majesty aforenamed will fit out some ships, and will besides give him all the convicts, and they will go to that country to make a colony, by means of which they hope to establish in London a greater storehouse of spices than there is in Alexandria...
Pàgina 192 - He is pensive, and has the reputation of being extremely just : he favours the people exceedingly, and especially the poor ; hearing their suits, and seeking to despatch them instantly ; he also makes the lawyers plead gratis for all paupers. He is in very great repute — seven times more so than if he were Pope.
Pàgina 463 - Did not I tell you, my Lords, what would come of this matter? I knew right well that the King would never permit my lord of Canterbury to have such a blemish as to be imprisoned, unless it were for high treason.
Pàgina 240 - Masters," quoth Sir Thomas More, " forasmuch as my Lord Cardinal lately, ye wot well, laid to our charge the lightness of our tongues for things uttered out of this house, it shall not in my mind be amiss to receive him with all his pomp, with his maces, his pillars, his...
Pàgina 421 - Holland on no account to facilitate Sir Geoffrey's flight across the seas. So anxious was he to stand well with the government, that Sir Geoffrey once asserted that Lord Montague was out of his mind and would reveal the cardinal's messages to Cromwell. Fragments of compromising talk were, however, reported. " The king will one day die suddenly ; his leg will kill him and then we shall have jolly stirring...
Pàgina 332 - Is that all, my lord?" quoth he; "then, in good faith, the difference between your grace and me is but this — that I shall die to-day, and you to-morrow.
Pàgina 364 - That the King's Power is by the laws of God most excellent of all under God in earth ; and that we ought to obey him afore all other powers, by God's Prescript...
Pàgina 395 - How presumptuous then are ye, the rude commons of one shire, and that one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm...
Pàgina 252 - My lord, said this man, whose name was John Greene, sith you ask who is our captain, forsooth his name is Poverty, for he and his cousin Necessity hath brought us to this doing.

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