Tudor tractsA. Constable, 1909 - English literature |
Common terms and phrases
afore Anne Boleyn answer ANTHONY MUNDAY Antwerp appointed army Band Bishop Boulogne brought Calais called camp CAMPION Captain Castle cause CHAMPAGNEY Church Council death declared defend divers doth Duke Duke of GUISE Earl EDMUND CAMPION EDWARD ELIZABETH enemy England English fire footmen French King friends gate Gentlemen Guisnes hand harquebussiers haste hath heard heart Henry VIII honour horsemen horses King's Lady Lieutenant London Lord ABERGAVENNY Lord GREY Lord's Grace Majesty's marched Master mercy mile never nigh night noble ordnance pageant pass Patten persons Prince prisoners Privy Privy Council Queen MARY Queen's Majesty quoth realm Saint Scotland Scots sent Sheriff shot side Sir HENRY Sir HENRY BEDINGFIELD Sir JOHN Sir THOMAS slain soldiers Spaniards spoil STEPHEN GARDINER stood sundry thee things thou thought took Tower town traitors truth unto victuals Whereat whereby wherein whereof Whereupon worthy WYAT WYAT'S
Popular passages
Page 149 - Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti ; si non his utere mecum.
Page 333 - I humbly beseech your Majesty to let me answer afore yourself, and not suffer me to trust to your Councillors. Yea, and that afore I go to the Tower (if it be possible) if not, afore I be further condemned. Howbeit, I trust assuredly your Highness will give me leave to do it afore I go...
Page 393 - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith etc.
Page 464 - Solemnity ; was because it was so extremely] heavy, by reason of the lead, that the Gentlemen could not have endured to have carried it, with leisure, in the solemn proceeding : and besides, [it] was feared that the solder might rip ; and, [it] being very hot weather, might be found some annoyance.
Page 104 - ... will suffer, through- the whole ward, so thick, that as easily shall a bare finger pierce through the skin of an angry hedge-hog, as any encounter the front of their pikes.
Page 333 - Majesty to verify it in me, and to remember your last promise, and my last demand, that I be not condemned without answer and due proof...
Page 339 - Lord ! I will never suffer any stranger to come about her diet, but her own sworn men, so long as I live ! " He said, "They should !" But the Cook said, " His Lordship should pardon him for that matter!
Page 333 - Upon Saturday following, (says Holinshed, that is on the next day,) two lords of the council, (the one was the Earl of Sussex, the other shall be nameless,) came and certified her grace that forthwith she must go unto the Tower, the barge being prepared for her, and the tide now ready which tarrieth for nobody.
Page 407 - As touching the heretic, because he had not done his sufficient penance there by occasion of this hurlyburly; therefore the next day following he was reclaimed into the Church of St. Frideswide [Christ Church] ; where he supplied the rest that lacked of his plenary penance. The Spoil of Antwerp. Faithfully reported by a true Englishman, who was present at the same. November 1576. Seen and allowed. [The first thing here is to settle the authorship of this anonymous tract ; which was also anonymously...
Page 250 - And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they ? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.