The flowers of history, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain, tr. by C.D. Yonge, Volume 2

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Page 117 - ... kingdom of England, and all other prerogatives of my crown. I will hereafter hold them as the pope's vassal. I will be faithful to God, to the church of Rome, to the pope my master, and his successors legitimately elected. I promise to pay him a tribute of a thousand marks yearly ; to wit, seven hundred for the kingdom of England, and three hundred for the kingdom of Ireland.
Page 500 - Warwick &c., sending devout kisses of his blessed feet, &c.: "The holy Roman mother church is the church by whose ministry the Catholic faith, as we firmly believe and hold, proceeds with such steadiness in its actions that it injures no one, but wishes to protect the rights of all persons uninjured. A general Parliament having been lately convoked by our most serene lord Edward, by the grace of God, the illustrious King of England, to meet at Lincoln, the said lord Edward, our King, caused to be...
Page 233 - NEWCA3TLE-OX-TYN.E. 233 death in this way, he made an effort to mount the horse again ; when lo ! his sword of its own accord fell from the scabbard, and in this way he was suddenly stabbed, and so the aforesaid Ingelram died, being at once hanged, dragged, stabbed, and drowned ; and I have recounted this event, though it is somewhat of a digression from my main subject, that the whole world may know that the marvellous life of Ingelram was terminated by a marvellous end. However, his son John, who...
Page 61 - Robert, the second prior of Winchester, died. King Henry earned a schism, through hatred of the blessed Thomas the Martyr. AD 1168. King Henry, whose anger against the blessed Thomas, and against the pope, who espoused the cause of the blessed Thomas, was turned to hatred, sent to the emperor Frederic, to intimate to him that he would be his assistance in ejecting Alexander from the dignity of the papacy, because he had become his enemy, and because he espoused the cause of the traitor and runaway,...
Page 18 - ... of his estate and taking it away afterwards, and by circumventing his brother's simplicity by other similar frauds and acts of cunning. For this prince Robert was of a perfectfigure of body, vigorous, bold, and fearless, of great muscular strength, of large bone, of lofty stature, and a manly expression of countenance ; but insatiably avaricious, very cunning, and out of arrogance disobedient to his father, magnanimous sovereign as he was ; he had no devotion to God, no fidelity to his brother...

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