Perkin Warbeck

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... ill 80. Two other friars. These were, as we learn from Hall, "Sir William Richford, Doctor of Divinity, and Sir Thomas Poynes, both friars of St. Dominic's order." 84. Do not hear him. Do not hear his name. 85. Lord Chamberlain. The officer charged with the direction and management of the private apartments of the monarch. 92. Sirrah. Apparently an extension of "sir," usually employed towards comparatively inferior persons or playfully to children. Other less plausible derivations of the word have been suggested--(1) from a compound word sir-ha; (2) from the Irish *irreach = lean, poor, . 93. Set .... off. Wipe out, efface. 102. Yet again, once more. "Clifford was required to say over again and again the particulars of his accusation."--Bacon. 104. Profess. Declare. Compare Matthew vii., 23: "And then will I profess unto them, I nover knew you." 105. sqq. "Amongst whom he accused Sir William Stanley, whom the king made his chief chamberlain and one of his Privy Council. When he had so said, the king was greatly dismayed, and grieved that he should be partaker in that grievous offence, considering first that he had the governance of his chamber and the charge and complrolment of all such as were next to his body, and also calling to remembrance the manifold gratuities which he had received at his hand."--Hall. "A man to whom he had committed the trust of hit person in making him his chamberlain."--Bacon. 114. Constant temper- Equable frame of mind. 116-117. "At Rosworth Field the king was beset and in a manner inclosed round about by the troops of King Kichard, and in manifest danger of his life, when this Stanley was sent by his brother with three thousand men to his rescue, which he performed, so that King Richard was slain upon the...