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" Are my words like lawyer's books, which now-a-days go to the wire-drawers, to make subtle doings more plain? Is there no hold of my speech without an act to compel me to confirm? "
Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A. [and E ... - Page 255
by Agnes Strickland - 1842
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volume 6

Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 374 pages
...members of the house of commons, who brought up the unlucky address. Nov. 14, 1566. It is to be hoped her speech was more perspicuous than her notes of...why such audacity should be used to make, without my license, an Act of my words. Are my words like lawyer's books, which now-a-days go to the wire-drawers,...
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Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Volumes 6-7

Agnes Strickland - 1852 - 908 pages
...members of the house of commons, who brought up the unlucky address. Nov. 14, 1566. It is to be hoped her speech was more perspicuous than her notes of...to a subsidy vote; neither yet do I understand why euch audacitт should be used to make, without my license, an Act of my words. Are my words like lawyer's...
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Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Volume 4

Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1851 - 826 pages
...members of the house of commons, who brought up the unlucky address November 14, 1566. It is to be hoped her speech was more perspicuous than her notes of...why any my private answers to the realm should serve foe prologue to a subsidy vote; neither yet do I understand why such audacity should be used to make...
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Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volumes 6-7

Agnes Strickland - 1857 - 730 pages
...members of the house of commons, who brought up the unlucky address. NOy. 14, 1566. It is to be hoped her speech was more perspicuous than her notes of...to a subsidy vote ; neither yet do I understand why «uch audacity should be used to make, without my license, an Act of my words. Are my words like lawyer's...
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With ..., Volume 3

Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland - 1864 - 740 pages
...members of the house of commons, who brought up the unlucky address. Nov. 14, 1566. It is to be hoped her speech was more perspicuous than her notes of...why such audacity should be used to make, without my license, an Act of my words. Are my words like lawyer's books, which now-a-days go to the wire-drawers,...
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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 2

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...which she read aloud to Mr. Speaker and thirty members, who waited on her November, 14th, 1566 ; — " I know no reason why any my private answers to the realm should serve for prologue to a subsidy rate; neither yet do I understand why such audacity should be, and to make without my licence an act...
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Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, Volume 4

Agnes Strickland - 1882 - 816 pages
...members of the house of commons, who brought up the unlucky address November 14, 1566. It is to be hoped her speech was more perspicuous than her notes of...I know no reason why any my private answers to the reahu should serve for prologue to a subsidy vote ; neither yet do I understand why such audacity should...
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The Life of Queen Elizabeth

Agnes Strickland - 1924 - 746 pages
...members of th« House of Commons, who brought up the unlucky address, Nov. 14, 1566. It is to be hoped her speech was more perspicuous than her notes of it, or little could the commons leam further, than that their liege lady was in a rage : — " I know no reason why any my private...
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The Word of a Prince: A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents

Maria Perry - 1990 - 288 pages
...likely to be fooled. When she spotted the offending clause, she scrawled over the draft in blazing fury: 'I know no reason why any my private answers to the realm should serve for prologue to a subsidies book. Neither yet do I understand why such audacity should be used to make, without my licence,...
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Elizabeth I: Collected Works

Elizabeth I - 2000 - 488 pages
...some of them would my pure conscience better served me that their lewd practices could avail with me. I know no reason why any my private answers to the realm should be made for prologue to a subsidies. But neither yet do I understand why such audacity should be used...
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