Documents from Simancas Relating to the Reign of Elizabeth, (1558-1568.) |
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Abbot accredited Aikin ambassador Archdeacon Archduke arrived in London beth Bishop of Aquila Bishop of London Bonner Calais Cardinal Cardinal Granvelle Catholic Cecil Church clergy Council Count de Feria Court Crown Cuadra Darnley death December died dispatch Don Carlos Duchess Duchess of Parma Duke of Alva Duke of Norfolk Earl Eliza embassy Emperor England English faith favour feared Flanders French Froude Garter conferred Geschichte Gonzalez Granvelle Guzman de Silva hate Henry Sidney heretic honour induce John Juan de Ayala July King of France Lady Catherine Grey Leicester Lemon Lennox letter Lingard Lord Machyn marriage marry Mary Stuart noble oath of supremacy opinion ordered overtures Parliament Parma persecution Philip Pole Pope proposal Puritan Queen Mary Queen of Scots Reformers refused regarded religion reign religious reply Rome rumours Scotland sent Sir Thomas sought Spain Spanish Stevenson Strickland Strype Teulet throne tion unto viii vols Wright's Elizabeth
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Page vi - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page vi - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 25 - As thy arms, O God, were stretched out upon the cross, so receive me into the arms of thy mercy, and forgive me my sins.
Page 51 - Elizabeth most insisted, were, that being a heretic (siendo her^tica) she could not marry him, and that she was resolved to restore religion precisely as it had been left by her father. That, although she would not assume the title of Head of the Church, she would not consent that money should be withdrawn for Rome, and that she would have the Act of Parliament sworn to by all who held public employments, although they might be ecclesiastics, and by the graduates of the Universities.
Page 101 - It remained in manuscript for centuries, but was at length printed in the Coleccion de documentos ineditos para la historia de Espana, v.
Page 87 - She had been compelled to temporize at the beginning of her reign...
Page 19 - The vessels in which the wine was kept were, probably, for the most part, bottles, which were usually made of leather, or goat-skins, firmly sewed and pitched together. The Arabs pull the skin...
Page 51 - Parliament, except the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Montague, the Bishops, and the Abbot of Westminster...
Page 52 - They repudiated transubstantiation and the belief that the mass is a sacrifice for the living and the dead, and they insisted upon communion in both kinds.