 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 238 pages
...know I am honoured with your Majesty's presence." The King started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I must not allow my laws to be broken in my sight." Oxford is said to have paid no less than 15,000 marks for this offence. A very visible advance in society... | |
 | Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - Feudalism - 1852 - 458 pages
...honoured with your majesty's [highness] presence.' The king started a little, and said, ' By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I must not allow my laws to be broken in my sight ! Oxford is said to have paid no less a sum than 15,000 marks as a confiscation for his offence." —... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 526 pages
...retainers, who had come on this occasion to do him service. " By my faith," exclaimed his majesty, " I thank you for your good cheer, but I must not allow...broken in my sight ! My attorney must speak with you." The earl is said to have been fined accordingly. It seems unlikely that the court of Henry would be... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 226 pages
...retainers who wore his livery on such occasions to dp 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... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...the De Vere. The King started. 'By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your hospitality, but I cannot allow my laws to be broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you' What the King was doing by power of law, time itself was assisting him in by its irresistible social... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...the De Vere. The King started. ' By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your hospitality, but I cannot allow my laws to be broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you.' What the King was doing by power of law, time itself was assisting him in by its irresistible social... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 228 pages
...your majesty's presence." The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank yon for your good cheer ; but I must not allow my laws...must speak with you." Oxford is said to have paid no less than fifteen thousand marks, as a composition for !iis offence. The increase of the arts, more... | |
 | Great Britain - 1861 - 282 pages
...number of servants than the law permitted. " By my faith, my lord," said the King, " I thank you for my good cheer, but I must not allow my laws to be broken in my presence. My attorney must speak to you." The Earl is said to have paid fifteen thousand marks for... | |
 | Andrew Bell - Feudalism - 1863 - 386 pages
...honoured with your majesty's [highness] presence.' The king started a little, and said, ' By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I must not allow my laws to be broken in my sight !' Oxford is said to have paid no less a sum than 15,000 marks as a confiscation for his offence."... | |
 | Andrew Bell (of Southampton) - Feudalism - 1863 - 392 pages
...honoured with your majesty's [highness] presence.' The king started a little, and said, ' By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I must not allow my laws to be broken in my sight !' Oxford is said to have paid no less a sum than 15,000 marks as a confiscation for his offence."... | |
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The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for your good cheer, but I must not allow my laws to be broken in my sight. My attorney must speak with you. 
