 | English literature - 1837 - 496 pages
...queen's private orders. This refusal produced the following unique epistle from her maiden majesty : — "Proud Prelate, — You know what you were before I made you what you are now. If you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you, by God. "ELIZABETH." This... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - London (England) - 1824 - 380 pages
...refused, when the queen produced a compliance, by the following laconic, but unlady-Iike epistle. " Proud prelate, You know what you were before I made you what you are now ; if you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock yon by G . ELIZABETH." He must... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1827 - 538 pages
...their families , are very common , — sometimes no doubt ' It was couched in the following terms : " Proud Prelate, " You know what you were before I made...you do not immediately comply with my request, by G— I will unfrock you. ;' ELIZABETH. " Poor Cox wrote a very good letter before this, printed in... | |
 | Henry Thomas (antiquarian.) - 1830 - 504 pages
...by the following laconic epistle, in which most assuredly no " Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty :"— " Proud Prelate, " You know what you were before I made you what you are now ; if you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you by G—." " ELIZABETH."... | |
 | 1836 - 590 pages
...for the benefit of the Lord Keeper, Hatton, Elizabeth wrote to him the following laconic epistle: " You know what you were before I made you what you...you do not immediately comply with my request, by G— I will unfrock you. ELIZABETH."' " Proud prelate, The number of deprivations and imprisonments... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 606 pages
...refused, when the queen produced a compliance by the following laconic, but unlady-like epistle : — ' Proud prelate, You know what you were before I made you what you arc now ; if you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you by G — . ELIZABETH.... | |
 | United States - 1849 - 602 pages
...addressed by Queen Elizabeth to the Bishop of Ely : " Proud prelate, you know what you were before I mude you what you are. If you do not immediately comply with my request, by God, I will nnfrock you." A national worship was an inseparable element of the polity ofancient nations. Thi»... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 pages
...Elizabeth wrote to him the following laconic epistle : " Proud prelate, " You know what you were before 1 made you what you are : if you do not immediately comply with my request, by G — I will unfrock you. — Const. Hist. i. 304. " ELIIABETH." On another occasion, she commanded... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 604 pages
...refused, when the queen produced a compliance by the following laconic, but unlady-like epistle :— ' Proud prelate, You know what you were before I made you what you are now; if you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you by G—. ELIZABETH. He must... | |
 | 1840 - 1176 pages
...of right, when they became again able to defray the necessary expenses.§ By this practice the • " Proud prelate. You know what you were before I made you what you are. If you do not comply with my request, by G — I will unfrock you. ELIZABETH." — Letter from the head of the Church... | |
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Proud Prelate, — You know what you were before I made you what you are now. If you do not immediately comply with my request. I will unfrock you, by God. 
