 your grace, that were not for mine ease : they are " most of them my retainers, that are come to do " me service at such a time as this, and chiefly to " see your grace." The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for my...  Writings historical. Letters - Page 168by Francis Bacon - 1819Full view - About this book
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1840 - 402 pages
...to start, and returned ; " By my faith, my lord, I thank you " for your good cheer : but I may nol endure to have my laws " broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." He alluded to the statute against retainers, which had been passed in his first parliament ; and the... | |
 | 1841 - 272 pages
...started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I may not have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." There was a law in operation at that time respecting the number of retainers that might be kept by... | |
 | Sir William Mildmay - Election law - 1841 - 720 pages
...livery of freedom, may be traced to the Phry• By my &ith, my Lord, I thank you for my good cheer ; but I may not endure to have my laws broken in my tight: my attorney must speak with you about it, The composition which the rapacious monarch thus obtained... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 484 pages
...castle with greater magnificence. " By my faith, my Lord," said Henry, " I thank- you for my good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight; my attorney must speak with you."* In the reign of Mary, some of the high nobility had still an array of two hundred retainers; but Elizabeth... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - Civilization - 1846 - 444 pages
...Grace.' The King started a little, and said, ' By my faith, my Lord, I thank you for my good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you.'" The fine imposed was no less than fifteen thousand marks. This anecdote, though trivial in itself,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1848 - 378 pages
...grace." Henry affected to start, and returned: " By my faith, my lord, I thank " you for your good cheer: but I may not endure to " have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must " speak with you." He alluded to the statute against retainers, which had been passed in his first parliament; and the... | |
 | James Augustus Hessey - 1849 - 216 pages
...him honour. The king started, and exclaimed, " My lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I must not endure to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." The earl was fined 15,000 marks. The king died in the year 1509, and was succeeded by Henry, his only... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1854 - 378 pages
...Henry affected to start, and returned : " By my faith, my lord, I tkank " you for your good cheer : but I may not endure to •' have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must " speak with you." He alluded to the statute against retainers, which had been passed in his first parliament ; and the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 226 pages
...him honour. The king started, and exclaimed, "My lord, I thank you fo'r your good cheer ; but I must not endure to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." The earl was fined 15,000 marks. The king died in the year 1509, and was succeeded by Henry, his only... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...affected to start, and returned, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I cannot endure to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." He alluded to the statute against retainers, which had been passed in his first parliament ; arid the... | |
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