 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
 | Montague John Guest - Great Britain - 1894 - 656 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 fine of ten thousand pounds, and was very glad to escape perhaps without paying... | |
 | Sir James Dixon Mackenzie (7th bart. of Scatwell and 9th of Tarbat) - Castles - 1896 - 582 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 the earl eventually no less than 15,000 marks (^10,000), in the shape... | |
 | G. W. Powers - Reformation - 1897 - 160 pages
...even by his chief and most faithful subject. " 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 result of the interview was a fine of 15,000 marks for the royal exchequer. Necessary as the enforcement... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1897 - 948 pages
...up to receive him. " I thank you for your good cheer, my Lord," said Henry as they parted, " but 1 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... | |
 | Osmund Airy - Great Britain - 1898 - 692 pages
...that they were his retainers. ' By my faith,' returned the king, ' 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 was fined 15,000?. It is very probable, however, that this was collusion, that it was done... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 484 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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Great Britain - 1899 - 762 pages
...By my faith, my lord," said the king, " I thank you for my good cheer, but I may not endure to see my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." The royal guest, according to the story, kept his word and the host had to pay a heavy fine. The pecuniary... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - History, Modern - 1901 - 944 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." — Green's History of the English People, Vol.... | |
 | Katharine Coman, E. K. Kendall - Great Britain - 1901 - 524 pages
...nothing, but when he came to depart he said to his host, " 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." The earl was forced to pay a fine of .£15,000 for his breach of the law, and was fortunate to save... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1901 - 432 pages
...Whereupon Henry exclaimed, " By my faith, my Lord, I thank you for your good show ; but I may not brook to have my laws broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you." The law he alluded to was not an obsolete one, for it was one passed in his own first parliament, forbidding... | |
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