The comprehensive history of England, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt, by C. MacFarlane and T. Thomson. Continued to signing of the treaty of San Stefano, Volume 2 |
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... taken against Sey- mour was a confession made to the council by Sir William Sharington , master of the mint at Bristol , who had been taken up and examined on a charge of clipping , coining base money , and other frauds . Sharington had ...
... taken against Sey- mour was a confession made to the council by Sir William Sharington , master of the mint at Bristol , who had been taken up and examined on a charge of clipping , coining base money , and other frauds . Sharington had ...
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... taken in his presence , but rather as merely reported to him by the council . Mean- while everything possible was done by the go- vernment to excite a strong feeling of public alarm . On the 17th " there were letters sent to all ...
... taken in his presence , but rather as merely reported to him by the council . Mean- while everything possible was done by the go- vernment to excite a strong feeling of public alarm . On the 17th " there were letters sent to all ...
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... taken a firm hold of him , and he terminated his life by drown- ing himself . ' Mary , who had been affianced in her infancy to the Emperor Charles , to the French king , to the dauphin , and who , in the course of the last two reigns ...
... taken a firm hold of him , and he terminated his life by drown- ing himself . ' Mary , who had been affianced in her infancy to the Emperor Charles , to the French king , to the dauphin , and who , in the course of the last two reigns ...
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... taken the city and castle of Exe- ter . This news was followed , on the 25th , by intelligence that Sir Thomas Wyatt had taken the field with the same determination in Kent ; and the mayor and aldermen , who had so re- cently been ...
... taken the city and castle of Exe- ter . This news was followed , on the 25th , by intelligence that Sir Thomas Wyatt had taken the field with the same determination in Kent ; and the mayor and aldermen , who had so re- cently been ...
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... taken , like a blunder- ty ; and , in less than a week after Sir Thomas ing schoolboy , and who was not worthy of the Wyatt's discomfiture , she signed the death - war- child whom his ambition and imbecility sacri- rant both for Jane ...
... taken , like a blunder- ty ; and , in less than a week after Sir Thomas ing schoolboy , and who was not worthy of the Wyatt's discomfiture , she signed the death - war- child whom his ambition and imbecility sacri- rant both for Jane ...
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Page 158 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Page 367 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
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Page 157 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Page 250 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 58 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 326 - Parliament business ; and that if any of the said members be complained of and questioned for anything said or done in Parliament, the same is to be showed to the King, by the advice and assent of all the Commons assembled in Parliament, before the King give credence to any private information.
Page 224 - A coach was a strange monster in those days, and the sight of one put both horse and man into amazement. Some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples, in which the cannibals adored the divell.
Page 270 - You shall swear by the blessed Trinity, and by the sacrament you now propose to receive, never to disclose directly or indirectly, by word or circumstance, the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret, nor desist from the execution thereof until the rest shall give you leave.
Page 325 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...