History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, Volume 8Parker, 1863 - Great Britain |
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... carried out of it ; the people miserable - not two gentlemen in the whole of it able to lend twenty pounds . They have neither horse nor armour , nor apparel nor victual . The soldiers be so beggarlike as it would abhor a general to ...
... carried out of it ; the people miserable - not two gentlemen in the whole of it able to lend twenty pounds . They have neither horse nor armour , nor apparel nor victual . The soldiers be so beggarlike as it would abhor a general to ...
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... carried off both her and her husband . Her Countess of Scotch guard , though fifteen hundred strong , had offered Argyle . no resistance ; and the next news was that the Callogh was a prisoner in Shan's castle , and that the Countess ...
... carried off both her and her husband . Her Countess of Scotch guard , though fifteen hundred strong , had offered Argyle . no resistance ; and the next news was that the Callogh was a prisoner in Shan's castle , and that the Countess ...
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... carrying a faggot , ' came on to burn the cathedral over their heads . The monks sung a mass ; the primate walked three times up and down the lines , ' willing the rebels to go forward , for God was on their side . ' Shan swore a great ...
... carrying a faggot , ' came on to burn the cathedral over their heads . The monks sung a mass ; the primate walked three times up and down the lines , ' willing the rebels to go forward , for God was on their side . ' Shan swore a great ...
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... carried back with him three thousand pounds to pay the arrears of wages ; Cecil pressed hard for three thousand besides ; but Elizabeth would risk no more till she saw some fruit arise from her expenditure . ' 6 To Shan O'Neil she sent ...
... carried back with him three thousand pounds to pay the arrears of wages ; Cecil pressed hard for three thousand besides ; but Elizabeth would risk no more till she saw some fruit arise from her expenditure . ' 6 To Shan O'Neil she sent ...
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... carry away ; and had the vessels arrived in time he might have remained in Ulster long enough to do serious mischief there . But the wind and weather 1 Irish MSS . Rolls House . CHAP VII were unfavourable . He had left Shan's cows The ...
... carry away ; and had the vessels arrived in time he might have remained in Ulster long enough to do serious mischief there . But the wind and weather 1 Irish MSS . Rolls House . CHAP VII were unfavourable . He had left Shan's cows The ...
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Page 57 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 390 - Sussex on safe conduct he offered me the courtesy of a handlock. When I was with the Queen, she said to me herself that I had, it was true, safe conduct to come and go, but it was not said when I might go ; and they kept me there...
Page 369 - My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Page 336 - although there be for the prince provided many princely prerogatives and royalties, yet it is not such as the prince can take money or other things, or do as he will at his own pleasure, without order, but quietly to suffer his subjects to enjoy their own, without wrongful oppression ; wherein other princes, by their liberty, do take as pleaseth them."t The Commons gained ground as the Tudor dynasty proceeded.
Page 348 - King) should not bear rule of them — for divers causes therefore they all had concluded that he should be put forth by one way or other — and whosoever should take the deed in hand or do it, they should defend and fortify it, for it should be by every one of them reckoned and holden done by themselves.
Page 239 - I know that there are practices in hand, contrived between the father and son, to come by the crown against her will. I know that if that take effect which is intended, David, with the consent of the King, shall have his throat cut within these ten days.
Page 141 - Highness hath devised how it may be performed. I utterly despair therein as of myself, and therefore must sit still, as I have now done, always waiting either her toleration, or else further aid. Mr. Secretary, can it be thought, that I alone, having sun and moon against me, can compass this difficulty...
Page 248 - ... for that he hath assured knowledge of such usage of herself, as altogether is intolerable to be borne, which, if it were not overwell known, we would both be very loath to think that it could be true. To take away this occasion of slander, he is himself determined to be at the apprehension and execution of him whom he is able manifestly to charge with the crime, and to have done him the most dishonour that can be to any man, much more being as he is.
Page 57 - ... short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves had wrought.
Page 346 - Madam, soucy* ye not we are here of the principal of your Grace's nobility and council, that shall not find the mean well to make your Majesty quit of him without prejudice of your son ? and albeit that my Lord of Murray, here present, be little less scrupulous for a Protestant than your Grace is for a Papist, I am assured he will look through his fingers, and will behold our doings, and say nothing thereto.