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The Aldermen of the City of London
… Preface to Volume II. In issuing the concluding volume of this work, the completion of which has been unavoidably … propose to make use of this work for purposes of reference or research is requested to be careful to supplement and … add that, although this work is printed for and is the property of the Corporation of London, I have had an entirely …
Acts & Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland
… 3 THE PREFACE. In presenting to the Club these remains of the Recorded Proceedings of the Church of Scotland, during … to the fate of these Registers; but of the means or the time of their actual release from the Tower, no … the payment of a sum of money as the price of their own property, which was considered as excessive, it was to be an …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface Preface THE Emperor Maximilian died on the 12th of January 1519. The latter days of his life had been employed in endeavoring to secure for … from four out of the seven electors. The patriotism or avarice of the elector of Cologne was propitiated by the …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface, Section 1 Preface. Death of Lewis XII. THE political fabric reared by Wolsey with so … this new affinity, was no match for the ambition of Henry or the genius and vigor of Wolsey, now in the prime of his … satisfied without it. 42 As for the restoration of Mary's property and jewels, Suffolk tells Wolsey he had done his …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface, Section 2 Preface. Disposition of Maximilian and the Swiss. After the battle of Marignano … fell in with Sir Robert Wingfield, not the most discreet or reticent of English ambassadors, and learned from him the … to his care, with a certain amount of money, jewels, and property settled upon her, of which he was to become the …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface Preface, Section 3 In the autumn of 1520 we come upon a paper of instructions 1 given by the Duke to his chaplain and … cannot be denied him,he was not beloved by his retainers, or his immediate neighbors. Upon Charles Knyvet, the Duke's …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… to Calais as long as it could be delayed with safety or with decency. It was his object to give the Emperor as … as possible for pushing on his successes, in the event of any future determination at the congress that both parties … their fellows in plundering his house and ransacking his property,an offence tolerated and overlooked in the general …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… by an embassy from England in return. It consisted of the earl of Worcester, West, bishop of Ely, Dokwra, prior … great concessions and sacrifices. It had purchased its own property from England at a heavy cost. It had paid dearly for … They tarry not whilk benefices be vacant; they take them or ( i.e. before) they fall; for they tyne (lose) the virtue …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… on in this spirit could have no other effect than that of brutalizing equally invader and invaded. The extravagance … neither of the going of his ships northward, ne of the division of the same, to my no little marvel." 16 "The right … of the coinage was an easy method of doubling their property. The Commons also further objected that as certain …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… in surrounding the perplexed monarch with a network of hostilities. The aid of the Swiss had been effectually … thought, as the Duke had married a French lady, and his property was in France, still more as his influence in … letter might be read aloud, in the hope of creating a division among them, or eliciting some expressions of …