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A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660 by Hutton Ronald
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Hutton, Ronald [Hutton, Ronald]

Witchcraft One spectacular expression of those tensions was the trial and execution of individuals suspected of witchcraft: that is, of harming other human beings, or their possessions, by the use ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )
Honourable Company: A History of The English East India Company by John Keay
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:John Keay

It is a wonder to us that any of you live six months, and that there are not more quarrellings and duellings amongst you, if half these liquors were guzzled ...
( Category: India 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 )
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 )
The Battle of Flodden 1513 by John Sadler
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:John Sadler

The Scots had thought themselves secured against the approach of their enemies from the opposite side of the Till, by the depth and bad fords of that river, through a ...
( Category: Scotland 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 )
Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant by Tracy Borman
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Tracy Borman

CHAPTER 12 ‘The Lady in the Tower’ ACCORDING TO CHAPUYS, what had made Cromwell resolve upon Anne’s destruction was not the open declaration of war which the Passion Sunday sermon ...
( Category: Great Britain 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 )

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