Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain: From the Commencement of the Twelfth Century to the Close of the Reign of Queen Mary, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1846 - English letters |
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1st series 2d series A.D. vers abbess advertised Anne Boleyn assured beadwoman bearer beseech your grace Calais Cardinal Wolsey Catherine Catherine of Aragon cause commandment COTTON countess daughter dearest brother delivered desire Dorset doth earl Elizabeth England father favour following letter Goltho gracious hath heart heartily Holograph humbly beseech King Henry VIII king's grace king's highness knoweth lady Lisle ladyship lands Lisle Papers Little Marlow Lord Cromwell lord my husband Lord Privy Seal lord's lordship loving Madam Margaret Douglas Margaret Vernon master secretary mastership MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS mother noble Norfolk oratrice Original Oxford PAPER OFFICE perceive Pleaseth pleasure poor pray present letter prioress realm recommend me unto right honourable right worshipful Master Rolls-house SECOND SERIES Secretary Cromwell sent servant shewed sir John sir John Bond sister Tailbois thank thing Thomas trust Umberleigh unto your grace VESPASIAN Wherefore whereof wife worshipful Master write written
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Page 175 - ... for the board-wages of my poor husband * Issue Book, 31 Henry VIII. Rolls-house. and his servant ; for the maintaining whereof I have been compelled, of very necessity, to sell part of mine apparel, for lack of other substance to make money of.
Page 173 - ... yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred before her in marriage, he then of a certain pity framed his fancy towards her, and soon after married her...
Page 252 - Thirdly, as I have and shall, knowing your excellent learning, virtue, wisdom, and knowledge, put my soul into your direction, and, by the same, hath and will in all things from henceforth direct my conscience, so my body I do wholly commit to your mercy and fatherly pity...
Page 42 - I am in comparing to his highness. And for you, I do know myself never to have deserved by my deserts that you should take this great pain for me; yet daily of your goodness I do perceive by all my friends; and though that I had not...
Page 42 - I make an end of this my rude and true meaned letter, praying our Lord to send you much increase of honour, with long life. Written with the hand of her that beseeches your Grace to accept this letter, as proceeding from one that is most bound to be, " Your humble and obedient servant, "ANNE BOLEYN.
Page 42 - I assure you that, after this matter is brought to pass, you shall find me as I am bound. In the mean time, to owe you my service, and then look what thing in this world I can imagine to do you pleasure in, you shall find me the gladdest woman in the world to do it. And next unto the King's grace, of one thing I make you full promise, to be assured to have it, and that is my hearty love unfeignedly during my life.
Page 190 - I loved him as well as he did me ; and was in bondage,2 and glad I was to be at liberty. So that for my part I saw that all the world did set so little by me, and he so much, that I thought I could take no better way but to take him, and to forsake all other ways, and live a poor honest life with him.
Page 251 - MOST humbly prostrate before the Feet of your most excellent Majesty, your most humble, faithful, and obedient Subject, which hath so extreamly offended your most gracious Highness, that mine heavy and fearful Heart dare not presume to call you Father, nor your Majesty hath any cause by my deserts, saving the benignity of your most blessed Nature doth surmount all Evils, Offences, and Trespasses, and is ever merciful and ready to accept the Penitent, calling for Grace in any convenient time.
Page 288 - I shall keep but a few here with me, I trust you will think that I can have no fewer than I have, for I have but a gentleman and a groom that keeps my apparel, and another that keeps my chamber, and a chaplain that was with me always in the court.
Page 364 - Holland is comen up with her ; that harlot, which hath put me at this trouble, and it is eleven years since my Lord my husband first fell in love with her, and yet she is but a churl's daughter, and of no gentle blood : but that my Lord my husband hath set him up for her sake, because he was so nigh akin to my Lord Hussey...