Richard IIIHarper, 1901 - 337 pages |
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Page 23 - If it please your Highness to know of our welfare at the making of this letter, we were in good health of body thanked be God ; beseeching your good and gracious fatherhood of your daily blessing. And where ye command...
Page 329 - Tidings came that the Earl of Richmond was passed Severn, and come to Shrewsbury without any detriment or encumbrance. At which message he (Richard) was sore moved and broiled with melancholy and dolour ; and cried out, asking vengeance of them that contrary to their oath and promise had fraudulently deceived him." But with his wonted energy " he determined himself out of hand the same day to occur and resist his adversaries.
Page 23 - And where ye command us, by your said letters, to attend specially to our learning in our young age, that should cause us to grow to honor and worship in our old age, please it your Highness to wit, that we have attended our learning since we came hither, and shall hereafter, by the which we trust to God your gracious Lordship and good fatherhood shall be pleased.
Page 222 - ... which was necessary to the validity of any royal decree. He came to deliver up the seal to the queen, and also to bring Lord Hastings's message. "Ah, woe worth him !" said the queen, when the archbishop informed her that Lord Hastings bid her not fear. " It is he that is the cause of all my sorrows ; he goeth about to destroy me and my blood.
Page 233 - Richard's titles. Tower, and took up their residence there. The king was nominally in his castle, with Richard and the other nobles and their retinue in attendance upon him as his guards. Really he was in a prison, and his uncle, with the people around him who were under his uncle's command, were his keepers. A meeting of the lords was convened, and various political arrangements were made to suit Richard's views. The principal members of the Woodville family were dismissed from the offices which...
Page 20 - From thence to supper, and in the time of supper she reciteth the lecture that was had at dinner to those that be in her presence. After supper she disposeth herself to be...
Page 23 - ... our learning since we came hither ' , and shall hereafter, by the which we trust to God your gracious lordship and good fatherhood shall be pleased. Also we beseech your good lordship, that it may please you to send us Harry Lovedeyne, groom of your kitchen, whose service is to us right agreeable ; and we will send you John Boyes to wait on your good lordship.
Page 20 - ... closette, and taketh her leave of God for all nighte, makinge end of her prayers for that daye, and by eighte of the clocke is in bedde." The going to bed at eight o'clock was in keeping with the other arrangements of the day, for we find by a record of the rules and orders of the duchess's household that the dinner-hour was eleven, and the supper was at four. This lady, Eichard's mother, during her married life, had no less than twelve children.
Page 42 - ... formally declared the heir. sent to certain measures which it was deemed important to take; but they could not get from the king any answer or sign of any kind, notwithstanding all that they could do or say. They retired for a time, and afterward came back again to make a second attempt, and then, as an ancient narrative records the story, " they moved and stirred him by all the ways and means that they could think of to have an answer of the said matter, but they could have no answer, word nor...
Page 24 - Right high and mighty Prince, our most worshipful and greatly redoubted lord and Father, We beseech Almighty God give you as good life and long as your own Princely heart can best desire.