| Robert Sangster Rait - Bishops - 1910 - 394 pages
...Queen Elizabeth's answer to this epistle was short and very much to the point. It ran as follows : " Proud prelate, you know what you were before I made you what you are. If you do not instantly comply — by G — , I will unfrock you." The unfortunate bishop had no choice, and, sorely... | |
| William James Heaton - 1913 - 376 pages
...she called on the Bishop to give them up. He was not at all inclined, whereupon she wrote him:- — " Proud Prelate. You know what you were before I made you what you now are. If you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you, by God. Elizabeth."... | |
| Philip Schaff - Creeds - 1919 - 966 pages
...to the Bishop of Ely, when he resisted the spoliation of his see in favor of one of her favorites, 'you know what you were before I made you what you...comply with my request, by God ! I will unfrock you.' As a matter of taste she liked crucifixes, images, and the gorgeous display of the Roman hierarchy... | |
| Religion - 1920 - 404 pages
...Pennant describes it, ' as insolent as indecent.' Being short it may be cited, although well known : ' Proud Prelate ! You know what you were before I made you what you are now ; if you do not immediately comply with my request, by God I will unfrock you. — Elizabeth.'... | |
| James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1893 - 920 pages
...serve to illustrate her conduct towards her friends, and show that their fears were not groundless : " PROUD PRELATE : " You know what you were before I...you do not immediately comply with my request, by G , I will unfrock you. " ELIZABETH." Had she so desired, it would have been as easy for her to torture... | |
| Lily Adams Beck - Great Britain - 1924 - 348 pages
...of the Bishop for Kit Hatton, and he refusing (it being the See's property), she hath thus writ: — Proud Prelate: You know what you were before I made...If you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you, by God ! Moll, he hath complied. And Mr. Secretary hath his eye on Harington Park.... | |
| Calvin Darlington Linton - English language - 1962 - 216 pages
...from Queen Elizabeth I to a bishop who refused to sell a garden he owned to a favorite of the Queen's. 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. Economy... | |
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