Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,
I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.
At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it,...
As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As they thundered past, the King and Warwick, flushed with victory,...
7. CCR; Robert of Reading; Murimuth; Dugdale, Monasticon; Annales
But he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes.47
Assiduous
One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, ‘When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death
Kat embraced her, concealing her dismay as best she could. For these few months, fraught as they were, Elizabeth had been entirely hers again.
If only the Fates had granted him a longer stay in this
He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.
Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in...
A royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms...
Zionists exploited, exaggerated, invented, or even perpetrated anti-Semitic incidents both to procure support and to drive Jews to immigrate to the Zionist-designated homeland. A few examples are disc...
William had now to consolidate his victory and establish himself as king, but first he sent his messenger across the sea to Normandy to tell Matilda that she was now, by the grace of God, queen of Eng...
Virgil had no difficulty in believing that God has visited the sins of Henry IV upon his descendant, Henry VI, yet he did not explain how this was to be reconciled with the triumphant career of Henry...
Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.
Late in the 16th centurt, William Cecil's son, Thomas reortedthat Philip had said that 'whatever he suffered from Queen Elizabeth was the judgement of God because, being married to Queen Elizabeth, wh...
Recusancy,
What she loved was being admired, being wanted, being pursued—but she did not think she wanted ever to be caught.