Publications of the University of Manchester: Historical series, Tema 43

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The University Press, 1923 - 392 páginas
 

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Página 128 - Thomas and his son ; and, after many high demands, we at last come to a kind of agreement upon very hard terms, which are to be prepared in writing against Tuesday next. 8th. (Lord's day.) Up, and, it being a very great frost, I walked to...
Página 7 - Now amongst all particular offices and places of charge in this State there is none of more necessary use, nor subject to more cumber and variableness, than is the office of Principal Secretary, by reason of the variety and uncertainty of his employment, and therefore with more difficulty to be prescribed by special method and order.
Página 186 - it would be a great profit to students, and honour to this realm ; whereas now the Germans, perceiving our desidiousness and negligence, do send daily young scholars hither, that spoileth them, and cutteth them out of libraries, returning home and putting them abroad as monuments of their own country.
Página 392 - No. XXI. THE PLACE OF THE REIGN OF EDWARD II. IN ENGLISH HISTORY. Based upon the Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in 1913.
Página 237 - Commons from me: for had I not received a knowledge from you. I might have fallen into the Lap of an Error, only for lack of true Information.
Página 57 - Generals, in commissions in executing offices by patent and instructions, and so in whatever else; only a secretary hath no warrant or commission, no, not in matters of his own greatest particulars, but the virtue and word of his sovereign. For such is the multiplicity of actions, and variable motions and intents of foreign princes, and their daily practices, and in so many parts and places, as secretaries can never have any commission, so long and universal as to secure them. So as a secretary must...
Página 391 - The Memoir may be had separately, price 2s. 6d. net. No. V. CANON PIETRO CASOLA'S PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM IN THE YEAR 1494. By MM NEWETT, BA, formerly Jones Fellow.
Página 98 - ... to excuse him: and it being yet necessary, that so infamous a matter should not be covered with absolute oblivion, it fell to secretary Coke's turn, (for whom nobody cared,) who was then near fourscore years of age, to fee made the sacrifice; and, upon pretence that he had omitted the writing what he ought to have done, and inserted somewhat he ought not to have done, he was put out of his office...
Página 158 - that forasmuch as his Majesty's letters to the Grand Signior, the King of Persia, the Emperor of Russia, the great Mogul, and other remote princes had been written, limned, and garnished with gold and colours by scrivenors abroad, thenceforth they should be so written, limned, and garnished by Edw. Norgate.

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