 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
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - Great Britain - 1865 - 748 pages
...Grace." Henry affected to start, and said : " 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 a statute, limiting the number of retainers each order of the King's subjects was entitled... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Law - 1868 - 208 pages
...of a visit from his majesty. Henry expressed his thanks for the good cheer he received, but added, " I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight — my attorney must speak with you ;" which words were a prelude to the fine of 15,000 marks. Tradition has probably exaggerated the amount... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Families - 1869 - 428 pages
...grace.' The king started a little, and rejoined, ' 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 yon.' It is added, that this affair cost his lordship eventually no less than fifteen thousand marks,... | |
 | England - 1871 - 836 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...compounded for no less than fifteen thousand marks." Henry was for a long time a great sufferer from the gout, and feeling it twitch hard in the last year... | |
 | Robert Bayne - Country homes - 1871 - 156 pages
...Grace." The King started a little, and rejoined, " 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." It is added that this affair cost his lordship eventually... | |
 | 1872 - 642 pages
...exclaimed, 'By my faith, my Lord, I thank you VOL. 14. 22 PART 84. for your good show; but I may not brook to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you.' The !:•'••.- he alluded to was not an obsolete one, for it was one passed in his own first parliament,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 556 pages
...The king started a little, and said : ' By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, hut I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight....compounded for no less than fifteen thousand marks." How the nobles were ground in what Bacon calls " Empson's and Dudley's mills," may be seen in the following... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1874 - 336 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... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...drawn up to receive him. " I thank you for your good cheer, my Lord," said Henry as they parted, " but I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." The Earl was glad to escape with a fine of ;£ 10,000. It was with a special view to the suppression... | |
 | Charles Mathew Clode - London (England) - 1875 - 906 pages
...Grace." The King started a little, and rejoined, "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." It is added that tliis affair cost his lordship eventually, no less than 15,000 marks in the shape... | |
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