Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: Wardrobe Accounts of Edward the Fourth: With a Memoir of Elizabeth of York, and Notes |
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Page lxii - ... be, rest, remain, and abide in the most royal person of our now sovereign lord King Harry the VIIth, and in the heirs of his body lawfully come, perpetually with the grace of God so to endure and in none other.
Page lxxxix - She then said that my lady his mother had never no more children but him only, and that God by his grace had ever preserved him and brought him where that he was : over that, how that God had left him yet a fair prince, two fair princesses ; and that God is where he was, and we are both young enough...
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Page 191 - Let no man fill Beere or Wine but the Cup-board Keeper, " who must make choice of his Glasses or Cups for the " Company, and not serve them hand over heade. He must " also know which be for Beere and which for Wine ; for " it were a foul thing to mix them together.
Page 179 - ... hung out branches of iron curiously wrought, containing hundreds of lamps lighted at once, which made a goodly shew, namely in new Fish-street, Thamesstreet, 8tc.