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Big Chief Elizabeth by Milton Giles
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Milton, Giles [Milton, Giles]

“A wyfe ought to be chaste, pacyent and sober,” reads one Elizabethan guide for housewives. She also needed to be hardworking, for her daily routine included baking, brewing, harvesting, spinning, ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 3,2015 )
1536 by Lipscomb Suzannah
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Lipscomb, Suzannah [Lipscomb, Suzannah]

CHAPTER 13 Henry VIII’s Theology Henry VIII’s theology seems to have situated itself somewhere between the later identities of Protestant and Catholic, and even somewhere between the contemporary beliefs of ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Schofield John
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Schofield, John [Schofield, John]

1 Foxe 5, pp. 376–8, 384; ET, p. 10 = OL 1, p. 15. 2 LP 10, no. 942. 3 Elton: Policy pp. 244–5; Merriman 2, pp. 111–13; Burnet 4, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Ives Eric
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-19 | Author:Ives, Eric [Ives, Eric]

So far the theme appears classical, but the relevant Vergil passage had been understood ever since the fourth century to refer to the advent of the Blessed Virgin, the mother ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Catherine Howard by Smith Lacey Baldwin
mobi |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Smith, Lacey Baldwin [Smith, Lacey Baldwin]

CHAPTER 6 ‘Harry With the Crown’ Henry and Catherine were married on 28 July 1540. Heads had fallen, the international scene had been confounded, and the world cynically speculated upon ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Boy King by Stephen Alford
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-04 | Author:Stephen Alford

But the council in London was unmoved. In fact it stood firmer than ever. The following day a letter was drafted for both Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth to offer ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Elizabeth's Sea Dogs by Hugh Bicheno
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Hugh Bicheno

Baptista Boazio’s map of the assault on Cartagena shows Drake’s flagship Elizabeth Bonaventure followed by the galliot Duck in the foreground. Beyond them the Spanish galleys fire their guns at ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Edward VI by Chris Skidmore
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Chris Skidmore [Skidmore, Chris]

Remember poor suitors who doth sustain great wrong Speak & dispatch them, they busy too long They be deferred from morrow to morrow Their silly poor hearts like to break ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Six Wives by David Starkey
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Starkey

Cranmer, it was clear, was right. The Boleyns as his patrons were right. There was no alternative. And this in turn meant that the canvass of university opinion became more ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero by Matusiak John
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Matusiak, John [Matusiak, John]

9 The Infinite Clamour of Deadlock ‘In substance, he plainly confesses that he finds himself in such perplexity that he can no longer live in it.’ Jean du Bellay, French ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England by Alison Sim
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Alison Sim

SIX Dancing and Music Dancing and music were important in the social lives of the sixteenth-century English. A knowledge of dancing in particular was essential. It didn’t matter whether you ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Guy
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:John Guy

The nature of the Marian dual monarchy Mary’s wedding was celebrated at Winchester Cathedral on St James’s Day (25 July) 1554. According to the marriage treaties, Philip was to be ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Lisa Hilton [Hilton, Lisa]

I do see so little proof of my travails by reason her Majesty alloweth not of them, that I have left all to the wide world. I do only keep ...
( Category: Great Britain March 3,2015 )
The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey by Gwyn Peter
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Gwyn, Peter [Gwyn, Peter]

Today the Churchy, whose former devotion has cooled, is injured. And is she not injured by herself? Certainly by herself. Our true predecessors, both monks and secular clergy, led a ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )
Armada 1588: The Spanish Assault on England by John Barratt
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-18 | Author:John Barratt

As Medina Sidonia himself admitted, there was a good deal of opposition amongst his senior commanders to the decision to anchor, but they can only have proposed one of two ...
( Category: England March 3,2015 )

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