Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of Their Courts, Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents, Private as Well as Public, 第 5 卷

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Lea and Blanchard, 1848
 

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第 131 頁 - Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
第 66 頁 - he would put open the curtains and bid her good morrow, and make as though he would come at her; and she would go further in the bed so that he could not come at her.
第 119 頁 - ... (Our Lord be praised) Your Majesty hath far more knowledge and greater gifts than others of your years, yet it is not possible that Your Highness can at these years be a judge in matters of religion; and therefore I take it that the matter...
第 66 頁 - Han worth, he romped with her in the garden, and cut her gown, being black cloth, into a hundred pieces, and when Mrs. Ashley came up and chid lady Elizabeth, she answered, 'she could not strive with all, for the queen held her while the lord-admiral cut the dress.
第 131 頁 - Albeit her grace's conscience is staid (fixed) in matters of religion, yet she meanelh graciously, not to compel and constrain other men's consciences, otherwise than God shall (as she trusteth) put into their hearts a persuasion of the truth that she is in, through the opening of his word by godly, virtuous, and learned preachers...
第 98 頁 - ... for me to the king's grace, my father, to have obtained his grace's blessing and favour ; but I perceived that nobody durst speak for me as long as that woman lived, which is now gone (whom I pray God of his great mercy to forgive).
第 119 頁 - When one of the king's sisters eats with him," says the Florentine ambassador, Ubaldini, " she may not sit on a chair but a mere bench, and so far distant from the head of the table and the king, that the canopy does not overhang her. The ceremonies observed before sitting down to table are truly laughable. I have seen, for example, the princess Elizabeth drop on one knee five times before her brother ere she took her place.
第 119 頁 - I humbly beseech the same ever, for God's sake, to bear with me, as you have done ; and not to think, that by my doings or example, any inconvenience might grow to your majesty or...
第 68 頁 - Denny and my lady, with humble thanks, prayeth most entirely for Your Grace, praying the Almighty God to send you a most lucky deliverance; and my mistress1 wisheth no less, giving Your Highness most humble thanks for her commendations. Written, with very little leisure, this last day of July, Your humble daughter, Elizabeth...
第 131 頁 - ... would answer in her name, she herself replied : that, for their expressions of loyalty, and their desire that the issue of her body might succeed her on the throne, she sincerely thanked them ; but, in as much as they pretended to limit her in the choice of a husband, she thanked them not. The marriages of her predecessors had always been free ; nor would she surrender a privilege which they had enjoyed.

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