By Victor Stater
A Political background of Tudor and Stuart England attracts jointly a desirable choice of resources to light up this turbulent period of English heritage. From the bloody overthrow of Richard III in 1485, to the production of a world imperial nation lower than Queen Anne, those assets illustrate England's tricky transition from the medieval to the modern.Covering a interval characterized by way of clash and department, this wide-ranging single-volume assortment offers the debts of Yorkists and Lancastrians, Protestants and Catholics, and Roundheads and Cavaliers aspect by means of facet. A Political background of Tudor and Stuart England presents a vital chance for college students to envision the associations and occasions that moulded English historical past within the early sleek period at first-hand.
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I could say a great deal more on this subject, but fear I have been too tedious already. * * From a copy by the duchess of Marlborough. 23 CONTEXT Godolphin to Anne. Saturday Morning, at nine. I come this moment from opening and reading the letter which your majesty gave yourself the trouble to write to me last night. It gives me all the grief and despair imaginable, to find that your majesty shows inclination to have me continue in your service, and yet will make it impossible for me to do so.
It gives me all the grief and despair imaginable, to find that your majesty shows inclination to have me continue in your service, and yet will make it impossible for me to do so. I shall not therefore trouble your majesty with fruitless repetitions of reasons and arguments. I cannot struggle against the difficulties of your majesty’s business, and yourself at the same time; but I can keep my word your majesty. I have no house in the world to go to but my house at Newmarket, which I must own is not at this time like to be a place of much retirement, but I have no other.
And its powers were commensurate with its ambitions, as the rack standing in the Tower grimly testified. At The Exchequer Chamber at Westminster, the first of April, 1573 The Lord Treasurer. The Lord Admiral. The Lord Chamberlain. Mr. Secretary. Mr. Mildmay. The rack in the Tower. A letter to the Knight Marshall to deliver unto the Lieutenant of the Tower George Browne, to be further ordered as he shall receive from the Lords of the Council. A letter to the Master of the Rolls, Justice Southcote and Justice Manwoode, or any two of them, to examine George Browne and all others suspected to be contrivers of the murder of Saunders, upon such instructions as shall be given them by the brethren and friends of the said Saunders, to put Browne to torture if they find cause, to commit such to prison as they shall find touched with the facts, and to admit the brethren and friends of Saunders to be present at the examination, and to minister interrogatories if they find cause.