 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 Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1876 - 1148 pages
...your grace." Henry gave a start. " By my faith, my lord," said he, " 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." An act had been passed against this practice in the beginning of his reign, and the earl had to pay... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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. And to show farther the king's extreme diligence, I do remember to have seen long since a book of accompt... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...your 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. 2 And to shew further the King's extreme diligence ; I do remember to have seen long since a book of... | |
 | Joseph Yelloly Watson - Tendring Hundred, Eng - 1877 - 274 pages
...his retainers and vassals, that he 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." And the result was that the Earl had, besides the costs of entertaining his King, to pay him a fine... | |
 | Edith Thompson - Great Britain - 1878 - 488 pages
...had come to see the King. " By my faith, my Lord," quoth Henry, " 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." And the Earl, who had thought to show honour to the King, had to pay a fine of ^10,000. Often the great... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 524 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1878 - 790 pages
...your 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! Xnd it is part of the DC proprio addebant. Cam duodecim viris et juratoribus gramtiorilnin minaciter... | |
 | M. J. Guest - Great Britain - 1879 - 700 pages
...that they were not servants, but retainers, Henry said, " I thank you for your good cheer, my lord, but I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." And the earl had to pay a line of .£10,000, and was very glad to escape perhaps without paying his head... | |
 | John Curnow - Great Britain - 1879 - 410 pages
...of retainers in livery. " By my faith, my lord," said the angry king, " I thank you for your cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws broken in my sight : my attorney must speak with you." For this offence the unfortunate Earl was actually fined ten thousand pounds. Though the king was more... | |
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