Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833 - Biography & Autobiography |
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Page 102
... hope my ground may be true ; but I am sure you have erred in your opinion , for I find daily worse and worse effects of ill offices done between us , my kind usages having no power to mend any thing . Now neces- sity urges me to vent ...
... hope my ground may be true ; but I am sure you have erred in your opinion , for I find daily worse and worse effects of ill offices done between us , my kind usages having no power to mend any thing . Now neces- sity urges me to vent ...
Page 103
Lucy Aikin. gone . If this be not , I hope there can be no excep- tions taken at me to follow the example of Spain and Savoy in this particular . So requiring of thee a speedy answer in this business , for the longer it is delayed the ...
Lucy Aikin. gone . If this be not , I hope there can be no excep- tions taken at me to follow the example of Spain and Savoy in this particular . So requiring of thee a speedy answer in this business , for the longer it is delayed the ...
Page 108
... hope of reconciliation and future favor at court ; and he prudentially de- cided , that this was a business in which it was better to be a spectator than an actor : a judgement of which his father - in - law the earl of Clare pronounced ...
... hope of reconciliation and future favor at court ; and he prudentially de- cided , that this was a business in which it was better to be a spectator than an actor : a judgement of which his father - in - law the earl of Clare pronounced ...
Page 116
... as follows : - Mr. Speaker : -The answer of the commons de- livered by you I like well of , and do take it for a full and satisfactory answer , and I thank them for it , and I hope you will with all expedition take a course 116.
... as follows : - Mr. Speaker : -The answer of the commons de- livered by you I like well of , and do take it for a full and satisfactory answer , and I thank them for it , and I hope you will with all expedition take a course 116.
Page 117
Lucy Aikin. I hope you will with all expedition take a course for performance thereof , the which will turn to your own good as well as mine ; but for your clause therein of presenting of grievances , I take that but for a parenthesis in ...
Lucy Aikin. I hope you will with all expedition take a course for performance thereof , the which will turn to your own good as well as mine ; but for your clause therein of presenting of grievances , I take that but for a parenthesis in ...
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Page 28 - For which of the kings of this land before Her Majesty had their banners ever seen in the Caspian sea? which of them hath ever dealt with the Emperor of Persia, as her Majesty hath done, and obtained for her merchants large and loving privileges? who ever saw before this regiment an English lieger in the stately porch of the Grand Signor at Constantinople?
Page 32 - A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine Bay, and Afric coast.
Page 214 - Cook [old Coke upon Lyttleton], overcome with passion, seeing the desolation likely to ensue, was forced to sit down when he began to speak, by the abundance of tears.
Page 117 - I must let you know," said he, " that I will not allow any of my servants to be questioned amongst you, much less such as are of eminent place and near unto me.
Page 507 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 376 - No churchman had it since Henry 7's time. I pray God bless him, to carry it so, that the Church may have honour, and the king and the state service and contentment by it. And now if the church will not hold up themselves, under God, I can do no more.
Page 121 - Remember that Parliaments are altogether in my power for their calling, sitting and dissolution ; therefore as I find the fruits of them good or evil, they are to continue or not to be...
Page 157 - This is my answer. I command you to send all the French away to-morrow out of the town — if you can by fair means, but stick not long in disputing — otherwise force them away, driving them away like so many wild beasts, until you have shipped them, and so the devil go with them. Let me hear of no answer but of the performance of my command. " So I rest your faithful, constant, loving friend,1 " CR" " Oaking, on the 7th of August, 1626.
Page 209 - I know that prerogative is part of the law ; but sovereign power is no parliamentary word. In my opinion it weakens magna charta, and all the statutes ; for they are absolute, without any saving of sovereign power...
Page 320 - ... or their power or will to chastise. Persons of honour and great quality, of the court, and of the country, were every day cited into the high-commission court, upon the fame of their incontinence, or other scandal in their lives, and were there prosecuted to their shame and punishment...