Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, Daughter of King Henry the Eighth, Afterwards Queen Mary

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W. Pickering, 1831 - 285 pages
 

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Page lx - And now you shall begin, and by likelihood I shall follow. I set not a rush by it; for when they have done the uttermost they can, then I am sure of the amendment.
Page lix - Answer you with few words, obeying the King your Father in every thing, save only that you will not offend God, and lose your Soul, and go no further with Learning and Disputation in the Matter ; and wheresoever, and in whatsoever Company you shall come, obey the King's Commandments, speak few words, and meddle nothing.
Page 213 - Touching the nomination of such women as I would have about me, surely Mr. Secretary, what men or women soever the King's highness shall appoint to wait on me, without exception shall be to me right heartily and without respect welcome.
Page 220 - Then comes the Day wherein the Virgin offred Christ unto The Father chiefe, as Moyses law commaunded hir to do. Then numbers great of Tapers large, both men and women beare To Church, being halowed there with pomp, and dreadful words to heare.
Page 223 - Children comene to xvnj years of age, and their uoyces change, ne cannot be preferred in this Chapelle, the nombere being full, then yf they will assente the King assynethe them to a College of Oxeford or Cambridge of his foundatione, there to be at fyndyng and studye bothe suffytyently, till the King may otherwise aduance them.
Page cxiii - She answered, That her soul was God's, and her faith she would not change, nor dissemble her opinion with contrary doings.
Page lxxi - I would have been a suitor to you before this time, to have been a means for me to the king's grace, my father, to have obtained his grace's blessing and favour ; but I perceived that nobody durst speak for me as long as that woman lived, which is now gone (whom I pray God of his great mercy to forgive).
Page lix - ... for a great while could not be persuaded to submit to the king ; who being impatient of contradiction from any, but especially from his own child, was resolved to strike a terror in all his people, by putting her openly to death...
Page 215 - Day, importing that then is hay harvest. So a pot against the 23rd of November, for the feast of St. Clement, from the ancient custom of going about that night to beg drink to make merry with...
Page 223 - ... Songe in Orgaines and other. Thes childrene eate in the hall dayly at the chappell boarde, nexte the yeomane of vestery ; taking amongeste them for livenge daylye for brekefaste and all nighte, two loves, one messe of great méate, ii.

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