The battle of Bosworth-field, between Richard the third, and Henry earl of RichmondNichols, Son and Bentley, 1813 - 10 pages |
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... perfon of fuperior talents obferving , dragged him from his throne , which he mounted himself . feffion was kept in his family during three generations , when his grandfon , Henry the Sixth , a prince much weaker than Richard , was ...
... perfon of fuperior talents obferving , dragged him from his throne , which he mounted himself . feffion was kept in his family during three generations , when his grandfon , Henry the Sixth , a prince much weaker than Richard , was ...
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... perfon to France . Their rich dreffes and trappings , indicated oftentation more than fighting . Whether Edward meant any thing befides pa- rade , is uncertain , for Burgundy and he quarrelled quarrelled as foon as they met . The French ...
... perfon to France . Their rich dreffes and trappings , indicated oftentation more than fighting . Whether Edward meant any thing befides pa- rade , is uncertain , for Burgundy and he quarrelled quarrelled as foon as they met . The French ...
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... perfon of power except the Duke of Buckingham , who was won by delufive promifes , never to be fulfilled . He was the step by which Richard mounted the throne , and then destroyed . The fate of every branch of oppofition e was was ...
... perfon of power except the Duke of Buckingham , who was won by delufive promifes , never to be fulfilled . He was the step by which Richard mounted the throne , and then destroyed . The fate of every branch of oppofition e was was ...
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... perfon , " to every labour and hazard , to fubdue " their enemies , and comfort his faithful 66 fubject ; and calls forth every man to de- " fend his king in battle . " Two powerful weapons may be em- ployed against an enemy , the pen ...
... perfon , " to every labour and hazard , to fubdue " their enemies , and comfort his faithful 66 fubject ; and calls forth every man to de- " fend his king in battle . " Two powerful weapons may be em- ployed against an enemy , the pen ...
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... perfon , intellectual powers , valour , and the affift- ance of providence , when in reality he was not entitled to one half . Some tell us his face fhone like an angel's , others , that he fucceeded from the pious prayers of his mo ...
... perfon , intellectual powers , valour , and the affift- ance of providence , when in reality he was not entitled to one half . Some tell us his face fhone like an angel's , others , that he fucceeded from the pious prayers of his mo ...
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affift againſt alfo army Atherstone Battle of Bosworth becauſe befides blood boar Bosworth Field Brakenbury brother Buckingham camp caufe Clarence Clifton commanded crown Dadlington death defign deftroyed deftruction Duke of Norfolk Duke of York Earl Earl of Richmond enemy England faid fame fave favour fceptre fear feemed feized fell ferved fhew fide fight firſt flain fome fought fovereign fubject fuffered fuppofe fupport fword Gloucefter Haftings Henry Henry's hill himſelf Hinckley History honour houfe houſe inftantly intereft King Richard King's kynge laft laſt Leicester loft Lord Stanley Lovell marched Market Bosworth miles moft moſt murder muſt night numbers obferving Oxford paffed perfon perhaps poffeffed preſent Prince promife reaſon Rich Richard the Third Richmond sayd ſhould sir John sir John Savage Sir William Stanley ſpot Surry Sutton Tamworth theſe theyr thofe thoſe victory Wales Warwick William Brandon worth Field York
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Page xi - The grounds had been drained. We dug in two or three places without effect. I then applied to a neighbouring farmer, a good intelligent fellow. He told me his family had drawn water from it for six or seven years, and that he would conduct me to the very place. I desired him to describe the signs. He said there were some large stones, and some square wood, which went round the well at the top. We dug, and found things as he had described them; and, having ascertained the very spot, we rolled in the...
Page 227 - Appear the dreadful ghosts of Henry and his son, Of his own brother George, and his two nephews done Most cruelly to death ; and of his wife, and friend, Lord Hastings, with pale hands prepar'd as they would rend Him piece-meal ; at which oft he roareth in his sleep.
Page 48 - In one of the apartments Richard rested that night. The room seems to have been once elegant, though now in disuse. He brought his own bedstead, of wood, large, and in some places gilt. It continued there 200 years after he left the place, and its remains are now in the possession of Alderman Drake. It had a wooden bottom, and under that a false one, of the same materials, like a floor and its under ceiling.
Page x - ... seemed to me in danger of being destroyed by the cattle. I therefore bestirred myself to have it preserved, and to ascertain the owner. The Bishop of Down spoke to the Archbishop of Armagh, who said that the ground was not his. I then found it not to be Mrs. Pochin's. Last year I traced it to a person to whom it had been bequeathed by Dr. Taylor, formerly Rector of Bosworth. I went to the spot, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Lynes, of Kirkby-Malory.
Page 221 - And bravely strove in fight ; but unsustain'd My ENGLISH left me in the luckless field, Where I to Henry's arms was forc'd to yield. Yet at his cost my corse this tomb obtains. Who piously interr'd me, and ordains • That regal honours wait a king's remains. Th...
Page 193 - ... will make ready and what captains and leaders you get to conduct, be prepared to pass over the sea with such force as my friends here are preparing for me. And if I have such good speed and success as I wish, according to your desire, I shall ever be most forward to remember and wholly to requite this your great and most loving kindness in my just quarrel. ' Given under our signet. 'HR 'I pray you to give credence to the messenger of that he shall impart to you1.
Page xiv - ... this profound darkness falls upon us just on the eve of the restoration of letters, and when the art of printing was already known in Europe.
Page 203 - Richard Duke of Gloucester, lately called King Richard, was lately slain at a place called Sandeford, within the shire of Leicester, and there was laid openly, that every man might see and look upon him.
Page 200 - Between both armies there was a great morass, which the Earl of Richmond left on his right hand, for this intent, that it should be on that side a defence for his part : and in so doing he had the sun at his back and in the faces of his enemies.
Page 97 - Richmond having pafled thefe difficulties unmolefted, flowly marched up the afcent, where the wood now ftands, the morafs formed by King Richard's well, being on his right, and the fun, not on his back, or his right hand, but between both; the King's troops looking on with their bows bent. As Henry marched forwards he feemed to drive Sir William before him, for in half an hour he would pafs over the camp he had quitted. Sir William advanced to the north of the hill, and took his ftation near Amyon-kys.