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... head . It is easier to commence than to conclude a revolution : and the objects , which the queen and Mortimer had in view could not be accomplished , if Stratford , whose in- fluence over Lancaster and the king was well known , should ...
... head . It is easier to commence than to conclude a revolution : and the objects , which the queen and Mortimer had in view could not be accomplished , if Stratford , whose in- fluence over Lancaster and the king was well known , should ...
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Walter Farquhar Hook. CHAP . X. John own curse , be on the heads of all those , who shall have thus frustrated the king ... head this curse falls . " The archbishop , who seems throughout to have preserved his temper , merely remarked ...
Walter Farquhar Hook. CHAP . X. John own curse , be on the heads of all those , who shall have thus frustrated the king ... head this curse falls . " The archbishop , who seems throughout to have preserved his temper , merely remarked ...
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... head of the council , which was to direct the affairs of the nation , he placed the archbishop . The same office was assigned to him in the year 1346 , one of the most eventful in the history of England . We may say , indeed , of ...
... head of the council , which was to direct the affairs of the nation , he placed the archbishop . The same office was assigned to him in the year 1346 , one of the most eventful in the history of England . We may say , indeed , of ...
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... head of the council , and his friend John de Ufford , the dean of Lincoln - afterwards elected to the see of Canter- bury - was lord chancellor , very stringent measures were adopted against provisors and aliens . In answer to peti ...
... head of the council , and his friend John de Ufford , the dean of Lincoln - afterwards elected to the see of Canter- bury - was lord chancellor , very stringent measures were adopted against provisors and aliens . In answer to peti ...
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... head of affairs , happy under all the circumstances of life , felt , in the early part of the year 1348 , the coming on of that illness , which he expected to be his last . As he found himself growing weaker he made his will ...
... head of affairs , happy under all the circumstances of life , felt , in the early part of the year 1348 , the coming on of that illness , which he expected to be his last . As he found himself growing weaker he made his will ...
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according aforesaid answer appear appointed archbishop Arundel attended authority became Bishop called canons Canterbury cathedral cause chancellor CHAP chapter Church circumstances clergy common conduct consecrated council court Courtenay crown death demanded desired determined Duke duties Earl Edward elected England English fact favour feeling France French friends gave give given granted hands head Henry holy honour immediately interests Islip John king king's Lancaster land Langham learned letter living London Lord manner measures mind monks object obtained occasion papal parliament party persons pope possessed prelates prepared present primate Prince proceedings realm received reference regarded reign Richard Rome royal Simon soon spiritual statute Stratford Sudbury taken things Thomas Thomas Arundel took translation University visitation Westminster whole Wiclif XVII
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Page 143 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page 79 - Let others creep by timid steps, and slow, On plain Experience lay foundations low, By common sense to common knowledge bred, And last, to Nature's Cause through Nature led.
Page 378 - ... to our lord the king ; and that they be attached by their bodies, if they may be found, and brought before the king and his council, there to answer to the cases aforesaid.
Page 462 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steeled The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 378 - ... whereupon our said lord the king, by the assent aforesaid, and at the request of his said commons, hath ordained and established, that if any purchase or pursue, or cause to be purchased or pursued, in the court of Rome, or elsewhere...
Page 177 - Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Page 245 - ... of all benefices : that therefore it would be good to renew all the statutes against provisions from Rome, since the pope reserveth all the benefices of the world for his own proper gift, and hath, within this year, created twelve new cardinals ; so that now there are thirty, whereas there were wont to be but twelve in all ; and all the said thirty cardinals, except two or three, are the king's enemies...
Page 79 - Witnesse on him that any parfit clerk is, That in scole is gret altercation In this matere and gret disputison, And hath .ben of an hundred thousand men : But I ne cannot boult it to the bren...
Page 377 - ... all points, to live and to die; and moreover they pray the king, and him require by way of justice, that he would examine all the lords in the parliament, as well spiritual as temporal severally, and all the states of the parliament, how they think of the cases aforesaid, which be so openly against the king's crown, and in derogation of his...
Page 376 - ... the time of all his progenitors; wherefore they and all the liege commons of the same realm will stand with our said lord the king, and his said crown, and his regalty, in the cases aforesaid, and in all other cases attempted against him, his crown, and his regalty in all points, to live and to die...