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A.D. Began A.D. Died afterwards Anne Anne Boleyn Archbishop arms army authority battle became Began to Reign Bishop Calais called Castle Catherine Charles chief Church clergy Council court Cranmer Cromwell crown daughter Death and Character defeated Duke of Gloucester Duke of York Earl of Warwick Edward Edward IV Edward VI Elizabeth enemies England English escaped Essex Execution favour force France French Henry VIII Henry's House of Commons imprisonment Insurrection Ireland James Jane Seymour king king's Lady Jane Grey Lancastrians land leaders London Lord marched Margaret marriage married Mary ment Miscellaneous Facts nobility Northumberland papal Parliament party plot Pope Presbyterian Prince prisoners Protector Puritans Queen of Scots Rebellion received Reformation religion religious Richard Romanists royal Royalists sailed Scotland sent ships siege Somerset soon Spain Spanish Star Chamber throne took Tower treason treaty Treaty of Troyes Tudor Westminster Wolsey Yorkists
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Trang 271 - God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For, though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament ; and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
Trang 303 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory." "I go," replied the king, "from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown; where no disturbance can have place.
Trang 171 - ... implies that he had an extraordinary passion for that liquor. All the energies of Edward's reign seem to have terminated with the civil wars : his spirit afterwards sunk into indolence and pleasure. Whilst, however, he was making preparations for a war against France, he was seized with a distemper of which he died in the forty-second year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. Besides five daughters, Edward left two sons ; Edward prince of Wales, his successor, then in his thirteenth...
Trang 260 - A coach was a strange monster in those days, and the sight of one put both horse and man into amazement. Some said it was a great crabshell brought out of China, and some imagined it to be one of the pagan temples, in which the cannibals adored the divell.
Trang 246 - Thus died, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity in England, Mary Queen of Scots, a...
Trang 261 - It is stated by a recent historian, that, as late as the reign of Edward VI. there were peers of Parliament unable to read. Well might Roger Ascham exclaim, " The fault is in yourselves, ye noblemen's sons, and therefore ye deserve the greater blame, that commonly the meaner men's children come to be the wisest councillors, and greatest doers, in the weighty affairs of this realm.
Trang 299 - Have mercy, Lord, on me, I pray ; For men would me devour.
Trang 234 - This was the hand that wrote it," Cranmer said, extending his right arm ; " this was the hand that wrote it, therefore it shall suffer first punishment." Before his body was touched, he held the offending member steadily in the flame,
Trang 303 - There is, Sir, but one stage more, which, though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. It will soon carry you a great way. It will carry you from earth to heaven, and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Trang 238 - As soon as Elizabeth ascended the throne, and before the least hostility to her government had been shown by the Catholic population, an act passed...