Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal Letters; from Autographs in the British Museum, and One Or Two Other Collections. 2d ser

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Page 176 - He is sure a prince of a royal courage, and hath a princely heart ; and rather than he will either miss or want any part of his will or appetite, he will put the loss of one half of his realm in danger. For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber on my knees, the space of an hour or two, to persuade him from his will and appetite : but I could never bring to pass to dissuade him therefrom.
Page 19 - It was one of the royal demesnes of the princes of South Wales, and with seven others, was given as a dowry with Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tew Dwr, to Gerald de Windsor, an ancestor of the Carew family.
Page 65 - The Kings of England, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Centuries had occasionally large Fleets under their command, but they consisted of merchant ships only, gathered from the different ports of England, or hired from foreign countries; those of England on such emergencies being pressed with their crews into the King's service. In 1304 the largest ship of war in England, according to Dr. Henry, had a crew of only forty men ; and in the fleet of Edward the Third at the Siege of Calais, in...
Page 38 - I would not contend. And, to inform you fully of all that has been done, I send you a person worthy of...
Page 23 - Glyndor has raised a quarrel, of which the object is, if King Richard be alive, to restore him to his crown ; and if not, that my honoured nephew, who is the right heir to the said crown, shall be king of England, and that the said Owen will assert his right in Wales.
Page 76 - This treaty was concluded on the 16th day of January, in the year 1419; and on the following Thursday, the 19th of the same month, the king of England made his public entry into the town of Rouen with great pomp, attended by the princes of his blood and numbers of his nobles. He was followed by a page mounted on a beautiful horse, bearing a lance, at the end of which, near the point, was fastened a fox's brush, by way of streamer, which afforded great matter of remark among the wise-heads.
Page 104 - Street, hoodless (save a kerchief), to Paul's, where she offered her taper at the high altar. On the Wednesday next she landed at the Swan in Thames Street, and...
Page 92 - This eventful period," well observes Sir Henry Ellis, " though removed from us scarcely more than three centuries, is still among the darkest on our annals. Its records are confused, mutilated, and disjointed. They who wrote history in it, had no talents for the task ; and there was a ferocity abroad among the partizans of both the rival houses, which prevented many from even assembling the materials of history."* The paucity of documents illustrating this period has, indeed, long -f~ been a matter...
Page 148 - DCC. marcs of lawfull money of England, by even porcions ; and moreover I promitte to them, that if any surmyse or evyll report be made to me of them, or any of them, by any persone or persones, that than I shall not...
Page 184 - ... of gold, wherein were lords and ladies, much desirous to show pleasure and pastime to the Queen and ladies, if they might be licensed so to do; who was answered by the Queen, how she and all other there were very desirous to see them and their pastime. Then a great cloth of arras...

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