History of the English People, Volumen2Useful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 |
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... already noticed the change by which the “ clerks of the king's chapel , " who had been the ministers of arbitrary government under the Norman and Angevin sovereigns , had been quietly superseded by the prelates and lords of the ...
... already noticed the change by which the “ clerks of the king's chapel , " who had been the ministers of arbitrary government under the Norman and Angevin sovereigns , had been quietly superseded by the prelates and lords of the ...
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... already wavering , and it was turned to the royal cause by an insult offered to the queen , against whom Lady Badlesmere closed the doors of Ledes castle . The unexpected energy shown by Edward in avenging this insult gave fresh ...
... already wavering , and it was turned to the royal cause by an insult offered to the queen , against whom Lady Badlesmere closed the doors of Ledes castle . The unexpected energy shown by Edward in avenging this insult gave fresh ...
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... already the great alliance showed signs of yielding . Edward , uneasy at his connection with an emperor under the ban of the church , and harassed by vehement remonstrances from the pope , entered again into negotiations with France in ...
... already the great alliance showed signs of yielding . Edward , uneasy at his connection with an emperor under the ban of the church , and harassed by vehement remonstrances from the pope , entered again into negotiations with France in ...
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... already made . Finally it was enacted that at each parliament the ministers should hold themselves accountable for all grievances ; that on any vacancy the king should take counsel with his lords as to the choice of the new minister ...
... already made . Finally it was enacted that at each parliament the ministers should hold themselves accountable for all grievances ; that on any vacancy the king should take counsel with his lords as to the choice of the new minister ...
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... already served its purpose in relieving Derby , and threw himself across the Seine to carry out the second part of his programme by a junction with the Flemings at Gravelines and a campaign in the north . But the rivers in his path were ...
... already served its purpose in relieving Derby , and threw himself across the Seine to carry out the second part of his programme by a junction with the Flemings at Gravelines and a campaign in the north . But the rivers in his path were ...
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Página 280 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and thereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página 422 - Wherefore, gracious king, remember yourself, have pity upon your soul ; and think that the day is even at hand, when you shall give account of your office, and of the blood that hath been shed with your sword.
Página 368 - He is a prince of most royal courage ; rather than miss any part of his will, he will endanger one half of his kingdom; and I do assure you, I have often kneeled before him, sometimes for three hours together, to persuade him from his appetite and could not prevail.
Página 383 - I had heard mass in Our Lady's Church, which is the fairest, the most gorgeous and curious church of building in all the city...
Página 345 - The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for my " good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws " broken in my sight; my attorney must speak with
Página 328 - ... and when I had advised me in this said book, I deliberated, and concluded to translate it into English, and forthwith took a pen and ink, and wrote a leaf or twain, which I oversaw again, to correct it; and when I saw the fair and strange terms therein, I doubted that it should not please some gentlemen, which late blamed me, saying, that in my translations, I had...
Página 433 - I beseech you to pity me, a woman and a stranger, without an assured friend and without an indifferent counsellor. I take God to witness that I have always been to you a true and loyal wife, that I have made it my constant duty to seek your pleasure, that I have loved all whom you loved, whether I have reason or not, whether they are friends to me or foes.
Página 459 - Lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia, and shall have and enjoy annexed and united to the imperial crown of this realm as well the title and style thereof, as all honours, dignities, pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities, to the said dignity of Supreme Head of the same Church belonging and appertaining...
Página 328 - And some honest and great clerks have been with me and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find; and thus between plain, rude and curious I stand abashed.
Página 385 - In the institution of the weal public this end is only and chiefly pretended and minded that what time may possibly be spared from the necessary occupations and affairs of the commonwealth, all that the citizens should withdraw from bodily service to the free liberty of the mind and garnishing of the same. For herein they conceive the felicity of this life to consist.