A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559, Volume 1

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Page 190 - In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes. TESTE Me ipso, apud Westmonasterium, vicesimo secundo die Aprilis, anno regni nostri decimo quinto.1 Per breve de Private Sigillo.
Page xxxiv - Mr. Kingston, I hear say I shall not die before noon, and I am very sorry therefore, for I thought to be dead by this time, and past my pain.
Page xxix - Marry, I bade him do so ; for I asked him why he did not go through with his marriage ; and he made answer that he would tarry a time. Then, said I, You look for dead men's shoes ; for, if aught but good should come to the king" (Henry was afflicted with a dangerous ulcer in the thigh), " you would look to have me. He denied it; and I told him that I could undo him, if I would.
Page 5 - The Master and Wardens of the Merchant Taylors, of the fraternity of St John the Baptist, in the city of London.
Page 100 - England and shot their ordinaunce one at another, and so had three courses up and downe the water . . . but at last the Pope and his cardinalles were overcome, and all his men cast over the borde into the Thames; howbeyt there was none drowned, for they were persons chosen which could swimme, and the kinges barge lay by hoveringe to take them upp . . . which was a goodly pastime.
Page 29 - Also, the 22nd day of the same month, John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, was beheaded, and his head set upon London Bridge. This bishop was of very many men lamented, for he was reported to be a man of great learning, and a man of very good life, but therein wonderfully deceived, for he maintained the Pope to be supreme head of the Church, and very maliciously refused the king's title of Supreme Head.
Page 215 - ... tam infra libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit de...
Page 42 - And then she said, I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck ; and put her hands about it, laughing heartily. I have seen many men, and also women, executed ; and that they have been in great sorrow, and to my knowledge this lady has much joy and pleasure in death. Sir, her almoner is continually with her, and had been since two o'clock after midnight.
Page xi - Garden, as being the only place appointed them in England, wherein to bury their dead, till the year 1177, the 24th of Henry II., that it was permitted to them (after long suit to the king and parliament at Oxford) to have a special place assigned them in every quarter where they dwelt. This plot of ground...

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