Outlines of English history1848 |
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afterwards Alfred Archbishop army barons Battle beheaded Birth and Reign.-He Bishop born Britain brother buried at Westminster buried at Winchester called Canute Castle celebrated Charles church clergy Cromwell crowned at Westminster Danes death defeated died Duke of Gloucester Duke of Normandy Duke of York Earl Edmund Edward Edward III eldest Elizabeth Emperor engaged England English espoused Ethelred Events.-The executed father favour Flanders France Frederic French Henry VIII House house of Lancaster house of York hundred imprisoned introduced Issue.-Edward James James II John July Kent king king's kingdom Lancaster land London London Bridge Lord Louis Marriage Marriage.-He married Mary middle stature monarch monks murdered Names Normandy Northumberland Oxford Parliament persons Prince of Wales Princess Queen received reign Richard Robert royal Saxon Scotland Scots Sept siege slain Sophia Spain succeeded surnamed taken prisoner throne Tower Tyrrell Wars.-With Warwick Westminster Abbey William Windsor
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Sayfa 49 - Happy is the king who has a magistrate endowed with courage to execute the laws upon such an offender ; still more happy in having a son willing to submit to such a chastisement!
Sayfa 31 - I forgive him (said the king), and hope' I shall as easily forget his injuries, as he will my pardon.
Sayfa 72 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Sayfa 58 - ... which was the means of saving his life, (though, probably, it might provoke the attack,) by sustaining a stroke - with a battle-axe, which cleft it. Richard's falling off in...
Sayfa 72 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we are told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar); she had in her ears two pearls with very rich drops...
Sayfa 58 - His body, disfigured with wounds, and covered with blood and dirt, was found beneath heaps of the slain ; it was carelessly thrown across a horse, and carried to Leicester, where, after being exposed to public view for two days, it was buried without ceremony in the church of the Grey Friars. But his bones were not allowed to rest there; they were torn from this humble grave by Henry VIII.
Sayfa 59 - Collingburn, who was executed on a charge of treason, but in reality for composing a distich on the king and his ministers. The lines were — " The Rat, the Cat, and Lovel our Dog, Rule all England under a Hog...
Sayfa 86 - This man, who never besieged a town which he did not take, nor fought a battle which he did not gain, was at St. James's a perfect courtier, in parliament the head of a party, and in foreign countries the most able negotiator of his time.
Sayfa 72 - Whoever speaks to her, it is kneeling ; now and then she raises some with her Hand. While we were there, W. Slawata, a Bohemian Baron, had letters to present to her ; and she, after pulling off her Glove, gave him her right Hand to kiss, sparkling with Rings and Jewels, a Mark of particular Favour : Wherever she turned her Face, as she was going along, everybody fell down on their knees.
Sayfa 86 - Flanders, was accused of receiving a bribe from a Jew, who had contracted to supply the army with bread ; though bribery was a...