Richard IIIHarper, 1901 - 337 pages |
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Accordingly Anne archbishop armor army arrangements arrived attendants battle Baynard's Castle boys brother Buckingham Calais cause Cecily Neville ceremony chapter character charge child Clar Clarence's command coronation council course court crown daughter death Duke of Burgundy Duke of York Earl of Warwick Elizabeth Woodville ence enemies England father fled force formed friends Gloucester grand hall hands head heir honor house of York husband Isabella Jane Shore king and queen King Edward King Henry King of France king's kingdom Lady Cecily Lancaster Lancastrian live London Lord manner Margaret of Anjou marriage married Middleham Castle mother named nobles once party persons Prince of Wales Prince Richard princess prisoner quarrel Queen Elizabeth Queen Margaret realm reign Rich Richard Plantagenet Richmond royal sanctuary secretly seized sent side Sir James soon thing throne tion took Tower troops ward Warwick and Clarence Westminster wife
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Page 23 - And 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 for our daily blessing.
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 23 - ... of your daily blessing. 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 1 'arning since we came hither, and shall hereafter, by the which we trust to God your gracious Lordship and gond fatherhood shall be pleased.
Page 23 - 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. Also we beseech your good Lordship that it may please you to send us Harry Lovedeyne, clerk of your kitchen, whose service is to us right agreeable : and we will send you John Boys to wait on your good Lordship.
Page 19 - ... of Contemplative and Active Life, or some other spiritual and instructive work. After dynner she giveth audyence to all such as hath any matter to shrive unto her, by the space of one hower, and then sleepeth one quarter of an hower, and after she hath slept she contynueth in prayer until the first peale of even songe.
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 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.
Page 252 - Richard argued. in order that lie might be with his brother. The peers who were in Richard's interest advocated this plan ; but all the bishops and archbishops, who, of course, as ecclesiastics, had very high ideas of the sacredness and inviolability of a sanctuary, opposed the plan of taking the duke away except by the consent of his mother. The other side argued in reply to them that a sanctuary was a place where persons could seek refuge to escape punishment in case of crime, and that where no...
Page 19 - After mass she taketh something to recreate nature, and soe goeth to the chapelle, hearinge the divine service and two lowe masses. From thence to dynner, during the tyme of whih she hath a lecture of holy matter (that is, reading from a religious book), either Hilton of Contemplative and Active Life, or some other spiritual and instructive work.
Page 42 - ... great sorrow and discomfort. And then the Bishop of Winchester said to the King's Highness that the Lords had not dined, but they should go dine them and wait upon his Highness again after dinner. And so after dinner they came to the King's Highness in the same place where they were before; and there they moved and stirred him by all the ways and means that they could think to have answer of the matters aforesaid, but they could have none; and from that place they willed the King's Highness to...