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The Dublin King: The True Story of Lambert Simnel and the Princes in the Tower by John Ashdown-Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Notes Abbreviations CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PROME Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1. See, for example, Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets, pp. 70–3. 2. ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Colley Linda
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Colley, Linda. [Colley, Linda]

‘A View of the Town of Rio Janeiro’. Pencil drawing by Alexander Buchan, 1768. Because of the bad weather it had suffered, and of not being able to refit and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The King in the North by Max Adam Max Adams
epub, mobi | | | Author:Max Adam, Max Adams [Adams, Max]

It is also a tradition which has become proverbial, that he died with a prayer on his lips. When he was beset by the weapons of his enemies and saw ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Greatest Traitor by Mortimer Ian
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

* On the day of the coronation the Scots had launched an exploratory raid on Norham Castle. They had been beaten back, but in March the court was informed by ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Story of England by Wood Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Wood, Michael [Wood, Michael]

Man be ware and be no fool; Thinke upon the ax, and of the stool! The revolt had unleashed savage class antagonisms and exposed deep fissures between the rulers and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
In Search of England by Michael Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Michael Wood

Mounted strength: a numberless host of cavalry. Eventually the voice of protest roused the king; Not to let himself be branded thus: That his people had meekly given in to ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Robert Lacey

ROUNDHEADS V. CAVALIERS 1642–8 LADY MARY BANKES WAS A FORMIDABLE WOMAN, THE mother of fourteen children. When the Civil War broke out in August 1642 it fell to her to ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Civil War: The History of England Volume III (History of England Vol 3) by Ackroyd Peter
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

The syntax might be faulty, but the fervour is evident. When they were not at prayer they debated predestination, election, justification and reprobation. They also discussed more political affairs. Ought ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Battlefields of England by Alfred H. Burne
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alfred H. Burne

1 The most recent biography of Queen Margaret passes over this point in silence. 1 It is not certain that Norfolk himself was present. 1 The present bridge is of ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Winston S. Churchill

At this decisive moment England’s monarchy might well have conformed to the absolutism which was becoming general throughout Europe. Events however took a different turn. The King was by no ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 4,2015 )
The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Gillian Tindall

* As with the National Schools, these two localities were then grouped together; of the two, Kentish Town figured first, as the more established centre. † A contemporary map shows ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Dangerous Talk by Cressy David
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-16 | Author:Cressy, David [Cressy, David]

Catholic Crimes A final strand of seditious speech came from the Catholic subjects of Charles I. Most Catholics, of course, held their tongues, but a few spoke boldly against their ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
London's Strangest Tales by Quinn Tom
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:Quinn, Tom [Quinn, Tom]

TRAFALGAR SQUARE – PERMANENTLY UNFINISHED 1838 Present-day Trafalgar Square is built on the site where Henry VIII and earlier kings once kept their birds of prey and their horses. The ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
epub, pdf | | 2015-03-02 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion by Ronald Susan
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Ronald, Susan [Ronald, Susan]

For the time being, Elizabeth and her Councillors were blissfully unaware that Pius V had proclaimed his papal fatwa on England’s queen. In February 1570, word had reached them of ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )

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