The Leading Facts of English History |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbey Anne Boleyn armor army barons battle became Becket bishops body Britain Cæsar called Castle Catholic century Charles charter chief church civil clergy conquest continent Council court Cromwell crown Danes death declared Duke Duke of York Earl Edward Edward III Elizabeth English history established feudal force France French gave George granted hand Henry Henry II Henry VIII Henry's History of England House of Commons House of Lords Houses of Lancaster hundred Ireland James John king king's kingdom knights Lancaster land later liberty Lollards London Lord Mary monasteries monks murder nation nobles Norman Normandy Paragraph Parliament period political Pope Prince prison Protestant queen realm reform refused reign religion religious Richard Richard II Roman Rome rose royal Saxons says Scotland scutage seized sovereign Statute throne tion towns Treaty of Wedmore Tudor victory villeins Wales Westminster Westminster Abbey William
Popular passages
Page 156 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head. To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Page xxxi - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
Page 239 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page xxx - Yet nevertheless of late divers commissions directed to sundry commissioners in several counties, with instructions, have issued ; by means whereof your people have been in divers places assembled, and required to lend certain sums of money unto your Majesty, and many of them, upon their refusal so to do, have had an oath administered unto them not warrantable by the laws or statutes of this realm...
Page xxxi - ... commissions, for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled ; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page xxx - ... they were detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your Privy Council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being charged with anything to which they might make answer according to the law.
Page xxxi - The king willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm, and that the statutes be put into execution ; that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppression contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself in conscience as much obliged as of his own prerogative.
Page 261 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page xxxi - And also sundry grievous offenders by colour thereof claiming an exemption have escaped the punishments due to them by the laws and statutes of this your realm, by reason that divers of your officers and ministers of justice have unjustly refused or forborne to proceed against such offenders according to the same laws and statutes upon pretence that the said offenders were punishable only by martial law and by authority of such commissions as aforesaid.
Page 195 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...