Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial (1890)
Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923, Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923 · London : Cassell · leaf 180
, Shrewsbury. Edward Stafford, the traitors son, was ultimately restored totitle and estates, by Henry VII.; like his father, he was proud, ambitious, andfeli himself a duke:— He deemed plebeians, with patrician bloodCompared, the creatures of a lower species:Mere menial hands, by nature meant to… … ST. Johns, bkkco.v. destruction; he was executed on Tower Hill, May 17th, 1521. lie met his fatewith heroic courage, disdaining to sue for merc3\ A foreign emperor, when heheard of his execution, severely remarked that a butchers dog had run down thefinest buck in England (alluding to Wolseys being…
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