Memorials of St. James's Palace, Volum 2

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Longmans, Green & Company, 1894
 

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Pàgina 111 - The First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Secretaries of State.
Pàgina 334 - And who that had beheld such a bankrupt beggarly fellow as Cromwell first entering the Parliament house with a threadbare, torn cloak, and a greasy hat (and perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected that in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king and the banishment of another, ascend the throne...
Pàgina 110 - The Queen's look and manner were very pleasing, her eyes much swollen with tears, but great happiness in her countenance, and her look of confidence and comfort at the Prince when they walked away as man and wife was very pleasing to see. I understand she is in extremely high spirits since ; such a new thing...
Pàgina 183 - Hervey, but before the last arrived the Queen was just dead. All she said before she died was: "I have now got an asthma. Open the window." Then she said: "Pray." Upon which the Princess Emily began to read some prayers, of which she scarce repeated ten words before the Queen expired. The Princess Caroline held a looking-glass to her lips, and finding there was not the least damp upon it, cried: "'Tis over...
Pàgina 49 - What was my astonishment," continued lady Suffolk, " when going to the princess's apartment the next morning, the yeomen in the guard-chamber pointed their halberds at my breast, and told me I must not pass ! I urged that it was my duty to attend the princess. They said, ' No matter ; I must not pass that way.
Pàgina 15 - That night one Hemings, a very worthy man, an apothecary by his trade, who lived in St. Martin's Lane, the very next door to a family of an eminent papist; (Brown, brother to the viscount Montacute, lived there:) the wall between his parlour and theirs being so thin, that he could easily hear any thing that was said with a louder voice, he (Hemings) was reading in his parlour late at night, when he heard one...
Pàgina 234 - (the first time it hath been ready for her), I crowded after her, and I got up to the room where her closet is ; and there stood and saw the fine altar, ornaments, and the fryers in their habits, and the priests come in with their fine copes and many other very fine things.
Pàgina 334 - South said with great composure. ' My Lord. I am sorry to interrupt your repose, but I must beg you will not snore so loud, lest you awaken His Majesty.
Pàgina 152 - An Epicede Or Funerall Song: On the most disastrous Death, of the High-borne Prince of Men, Henry Prince of Wales, &c. With The Funeralls, and Representation of the Herse...
Pàgina 110 - Queen wore an armlet, having the motto of the order of the Garter, ' Honi soit qui mal y pense,' inscribed in diamonds, and also the Star of the Order.

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