Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere, Volume 1, Issue 1H.M. Stationery Office, 1920 |
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Page 626 - French fleet escaped into the harbour of Brest ; and " sir Edward " made his vow to God, that he would never more see " the king in the face, till he had revenged the death " of the noble and valiant knight sir Thomas Knyvet t.
Page 1 - Barbara," each with their peculiar emblems, — "so to aid, succour, and defend him, that the ancient and ghostly enemy, nor none other evil or damnable spirit, have no power to invade him, nor with their wickedness to annoy him, but with holy prayers to be intercessors for him to his Maker and Redeemer.
Page xxiii - ... that the gentiles be made of. Whie then should they sporte and plaie, and you labour and tyll ? He will tell you also that at your birthes and at your deathes your riches is indifferent. Why should they have soe much of the prosperitie and...
Page 277 - Hastings was pardoned,49 and nine of the smaller recognizances were cancelled since, because of their manifold injustice they "may not be levied without the evident peril of our said late father's soul which we (Henry VIII) would for no earthly riches see nor suffer.
Page 484 - I shall be faithful and true, and faith and truth I shall bear to the King our sovereign lord, and to his heirs kings of England: and truly I shall knowledge the services due of the temporalities of my monastery, which I claim to hold of our said sovereign lord the King, and which he giveth and yieldeth me ; and to him and his commandments in that that to me attaineth and belongeth for my temporalities of my said monastery, I shall be obeisant. So help me God and his saints.
Page 277 - The king declares that this had been done 41 without any cause reasonable or lawful, by the undue means of certain of the learned Council of our late father, contrary to the law, reason and good conscience, to the manifest charge and peril of the soul of our late father...
Page 1 - Xpe qui me creasti, redemisti et predestinasti ad hoc quod sum, Tu scis quid de me facere vis, fac de me secundum voluntatem tuam cum misericordia.
Page xiv - Who wrote this letter? I ask peace of the King of France, who dare not look me in the face, still less make war on me!!
Page xxiii - His nature and property is to entice you to enable yourself to such things as nothing beseemeth, or to do such things as you can nothing skill on. He will show you that you be made of the same mould and metal that the gentles be made of. Why then should they sport and play, and you labour and till? He will tell you also that at your births and deaths your riches is indifferent. Why should they have so much of the prosperity and treasure of this world, and ye so little?
Page 452 - ... dated at Nottingham Castle, Aug. 24th of that year, was ordered " to make out a licence for the churchwardens of the church of Dadlyngton, Co. Leyc., to ask alms for 7 years in the dioceses of Lincoln, Chester, Worcester, and Norwich, towards building a Chapel of St. James, standing on Bosworth Field, and for the stipend of a priest to pray for the souls of the persons slain in the said field.