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Page 28 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 52 - Sirs," said the metropolitan, " I here present king Edward, rightful and undoubted inheritor, by .the laws of God and man, to the royal dignity and crown imperial of this realm, whose consecration, inunction, and coronation, is appointed by all the nobles and peers of the land to be this day.
Page 127 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children...
Page 190 - Lord God, deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life, and take me among thy chosen. Howbeit, not my will, but thy will be done. Lord, I commit my spirit to thee. O Lord! thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee, yet for thy chosen's sake send me life and health, that I may truly serve thee.
Page 127 - A wondrous thing, that so excellent a gift of God should be so little esteemed: I desire you, my Lords, even as ye love the honour and glory of God, and intend to remove his indignation, let there be sent forth some proclamation, some sharp proclamation to the justices of peace, for they do not their duty: justices now be no justices.
Page 55 - N. do become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to live and die, against all manner of folks. So help me God.
Page 127 - The art of shooting hath been in times past much esteemed in this realm : it is a gift of God that he hath given us to excel all other nations withal : it hath been God's instrument, whereby he hath given us many victories against our enemies : but now we have taken up whoring in towns, instead of shooting in the fields.
Page 190 - Lord God, defend this realm from papistry, and maintain thy true religion, that I and my people may praise thy holy name, for Jesus Christ his sake.
Page 191 - The last words of his pangs were these : ' I am faint, Lord, have mercy upon me, and take my spirit.
Page 126 - Have we not a noble king ? Was there ever king so noble; so godly; brought up with so noble counsellors ; so excellent and well learned schoolmasters ? I will tell you this, and I speak it even as I think: his Majesty hath more godly wit and understanding, more learning and knowledge at this age, than twenty of his progenitors, that I could name, had at any time of their life.