The Reign of Henry VIII from His Accession to the Death of Wolsey: Reviewed and Illustrated from Original Documents, Volum 2

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John Murray, 1884
 

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Pàgina 444 - 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 444 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Pàgina 109 - King answered that he would go first and shift his apparel ; and so departed, and went straight into my lord's...
Pàgina 160 - And for the pleasure he took in his company, would his Grace suddenly sometimes come home to his house at Chelsea to be merry with him, whither on a time unlocked for he came to dinner, and after dinner in a fair garden of his walked with him by the space of an hour holding his arm about his neck.
Pàgina 108 - French, to take the pains to go down into the hall to encounter and to receive them, according to their estates, and to conduct them into this chamber, where they shall see us, and all these noble personages sitting merrily at our banquet, desiring them to sit down with us, and to take part of our fare and pastime.
Pàgina 163 - ... setting forth thereof. And to put you all out of doubt, I will declare unto you the special cause that moved me hereunto; it was a certain scrupulosity that pricked my conscience upon divers words that were spoken at a certain time by the Bishop of Bayonne, the French king's ambassador, who had been here long upon the debating for the conclusion of a marriage to be concluded between the princess our daughter Mary, and the Duke of Orleans, the French king's second son.
Pàgina 160 - I find his Grace my very good Lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this realm ; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee, I have no cause to be proud thereof ; for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us) it should not fail to go.
Pàgina 360 - ... learning in such doubtful laws than I have. Wherefore I will adjourn this court for this time, according to the order of the court in Rome, from whence this court and jurisdiction is derived. And if we should go...
Pàgina 345 - Sir, I most humbly beseech your highness to declare me before all this audience, whether I have been the chief inventor or first mover of this matter unto your majesty; for I am greatly suspected of all men herein.
Pàgina 245 - ... keep him not too long with you, but desire him for your sake to make the more speed; for the sooner we shall have word from him the sooner shall our matter come to pass; and thus upon trust of your short repair to London I make an end of my letter mine own sweetheart; written with the hand of him which desireth as much to be yours as you do to have him.

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