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Abbey AGNES STRICKLAND Anselm appointed archbishop bachelor king bishop brother brought Buckingham Castle chamber chamberlain chapel Chronicle church coronation Cranmer crown death desire Eadmer Edward IV eldest Elizabeth Elizabeth Woodville English father favour favourite France French Garter gentlemen Gloucester gold grace Greenwich Hall Hampton Court hand Hastings hath heir Henry VIII Hertford honour Ibid Katharine Parr king Edward King Edward's Journal king of England king's majesty lady Jane Lanfranc learned letter Literary Remains London lord admiral lord chamberlain lord protector marquis marriage Mary master monarch mother murder night noble Norman Normandy Northampton Northumberland Ordericus Vitalis palace parliament person prayer present prince of Wales princess realm received reign replied Richard Rivers Robert robes sanctuary says Scotland sent Sharon Turner sir James Tyrell sir John sir Thomas sister throne took Tower uncle Westminster William of Malmesbury William Rufus York young king young royal young sovereign
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Page 410 - His coming again; hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech Thee; and grant, that we receiving these Thy creatures of bread and wine, according to Thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of His death and passion, may be partakers of His most blessed body and blood...
Page 410 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 238 - The beautifullest creature that liveth under the sun ; the wittiest, the most amiable, and the gentlest thing of all the world. Such a capacity in learning the things taught him by his schoolmasters, that it is a wonder to hear say. And finally, he hath such a grace of...
Page 235 - Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God King of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head...
Page 206 - Preserve, therefore, I pray you, my dear sister Mary from all the wiles and enchantments of the evil one, and beseech her to attend no longer to foreign dances and merriments which do not become a most Christian Princess.
Page 410 - Hear us (O merciful FATHER), we beseech Thee, and with Thy HOLY SPIRIT and Word, vouchsafe to bl+ess and sanc+tify these Thy gifts and creatures of Bread and Wine, that they may be unto us, the Body and Blood of Thy most dearly beloved SON JESUS CHRIST.
Page 409 - As touching, kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands, knocking upon the breast, and other gestures, they may be used or left, as every man's devotion serveth, without blame,' this Rubric was in the second Prayer Book of Edward VI.
Page 218 - was sorrow more sweetly set forth, their faces seeming rather to beautify their sorrow than their sorrow to cloud the beauty of their faces." 1 The boy-king was conducted the next day to London, preparatory to his inauguration; but neither the grief which he felt for the death of his parent, nor the importance of the high vocation to which he had been thus early summoned, rendered him forgetful of his sweetest sister, as he ever called...
Page 259 - the princess Elizabeth drop on one knee five times before her brother, before she took her place." At dinner, if either of his sisters were permitted to eat with him, she sat on a stool and cushion, at a distance, beyond the limits of the royal duis.
Page 292 - In the mean season in England rose great stirs, like to increase much if it had not been well foreseen. The council, about nineteen of them, were gathered in London, thinking to meet with the lord protector, and to make him amend some of his disorders.