Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, & James I: Exhibited in a Series of Original Papers, Selected from the Mss. of the Noble Families of Howard, Talbot, and Cecil; Containing ... a Great Part of the Correspondence of Elizabeth and Her Ministers, with George, Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury, During the Fifteen Years in which Mary, Queen of Scots, Remained in His Custody, Volume 3J. Chidley, 1838 - Great Britain |
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Alnwick Ambassador appointed April Archbishop of York Archduke Arundel Berwick beseech Bishop Castle Cavendish Cecil Papers charge command Commissioners concerning Countess Countess of Shrewsbury daughter Derby Derbyshire desiring doth Duke EARL OF SALISBURY Earl of Shrewsbury EARL OF WORCESTER Earl's Elizabeth estates favour gentlemen Greenwich Hampton Court hear heard Henry humbly take James July June King King's Knight Lady Arabella late letter London Lord Burghley Lord Cecil Lord Cranborne Lord Talbot Lord the Earl Lord Wharton Low Countries Majesty Maner March married matter Nottinghamshire Pembroke pray Prince Privy Council Queen requesting right honourable ROWLAND WHYTE same-Compliments Scotland Scots sent servant Sheffield Sheffield Castle ship Shrewsbury to Lord Sir Francis Sir George Sir John Sir Robert Sir Thomas Edmonds Southampton Spain take my leave Talbot Papers THOMAS EDMONDS unto Westminster whereof Whitehall Winchester York
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Page 125 - ... and dearest viands sea or land could afford. And all this once seen, and having feasted the eyes of the invited, was in a manner thrown away, and fresh set on to the same height, having only this advantage of the other, that it was hot.
Page 66 - The lady doth here protest upon her salvation, that she never dealt in any of these things, and so she willed me to tell the court.
Page 98 - Good Mr. Jowler, we pray you speak to the King (for he hears you every day, and so doth he not us) that it will please his Majesty to go back to London, for else the country will be undone ; all our provision is spent already, and we are not able to entertain him longer.
Page 260 - Nunc vero et facto perficite : ut quemadmodum promptus est animus voluntatis, ita sit et perficiendi ex eo, quod habetis. 12 Si enim voluntas prompta est, secundum id, quod habet, accepta est, non secundum id, quod non habet.
Page 25 - In this state of separation, however, they concerted means for an escape, which both effected on the same day, June 3, 1611, and Mr. Seymour got safely to Flanders; but the poor lady was retaken in Calais Road, and imprisoned in the Tower; where the sense of these undeserved oppressions operating too severely on her high spirit, she became a lunatic, and languished in that wretched state, augmented by the horrors of a prison, till her death on the 27th of September, 1615.
Page 213 - Sir George, I have loved you long, and desire still to do so ; but by your manner in playing, you lay it upon me, either to leave to love you, or to leave to play with you ; wherefore, choosing to love you still, I will never play with you more.
Page 227 - I trow, than to laugh when one smarteth; but that my aunt's divinity can tell you St. Lawrence, deriding his tormentors even upon the gridiron, bade them turn him on the other side, for that he lay on was sufficiently broiled, I should not know how to excuse myself from either insensibleness or contempt of injuries.
Page 263 - The prince his birthday has been solemnised here by the few marquises and lords which found themselves here ; and (to supply the want of lords) knights and squires were admitted to a consultation, wherein it was resolved that such a number should meet at Gamiges, and bring every man his dish of meat. It was left to their own choice what to bring ; some chose to be substantial, some curious, some extravagant.
Page 22 - Spanish gloves, hawks' hoods, leather for jerkins and moreover a perfumer ; these delicacies he bestoweth amongst our Ladies and Lords, I will not say with a hope to effeminate the one sex, but certainly with a hope to grow gracious with the other as he already is. The curiosity of our sex drew many Ladies and gentlewomen to gaze at him betwixt his Landing place and Oxford his abiding place ; which he desirous to satisfy, (I will not say nourish that vice) made his coach stay and took occasion with...
Page 105 - Lordship's letters, and will take present order in mine own diocese. I wish with all my heart that the like order were given, not only to all Bishops but to all Magistrates and Justices of the Peace...