Ballads from Manuscripts
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ISBN13: 9780217443395
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ar mdel MS. 418, leaf 1.] e JHans pittance, THE BOOKE TO YOZ7R MAIESTIE. Althoughe I bee not cladd in golde, Nor withe a cover gorgeouse fyne, Perhaps in mee you maye beholde Thinges that to vertue doe Incline, Passinge some glittringe giftes thai shyne. If mee to reade youle take the payne, Your grace?I hope?shall reape the gayne. This booke contaynes three severali subiccts, as appeers in my peticion to yowr Roiall maiestie. leaf 2.] A POORE MANS PITTANCE, Contayninge three severall subiects: ? 1. The firste, the fall and complaynte of Anthonie Babington, whoe, with others, weave executed for highe treason in the feildes nere lyncolns Inne, in the yeare of our lorde .... 1586 2. The seconde contajnes the life and Deathe of Roberte, lorde Deverox, Earle of Essex, whoe was beheaded in the towre of london on ash- wensdaye mornynge, Anno 1601 3. The laste, Intituled acclamatio patrie, con- tayninge the horrib l]e treason that weare pretended agaynste yowr MatVstie, to be donne on the parliament howse The seconde yeare of your Maiistt's Raygne 1604]-vith all other kinglie Titells and Dignities what soever, To whome yowr poore humble subiecte, Richarde Williams, wishethhealthe, longe life, and Manye happie years to Raygne over vs, to the glorye of god, and yowr ma- iesties comforte. My Dreade and Roiall Soveraygne, This Anthonie Babington was borne at a mansion howse of his fathers, called Dethicke, in the Countie of Darbye, in the parrishe of Crietche; whose father was a man of good accompte, and lived well and orderlie in his contrie, kepte a good howse, and re- leived the poore; But he was Inclined to papistrie, as the tymes then requyred; whoe had a brother that was a Doctor of Divinitie in Quene Maryes dayes, of whome some mention is mad
| ISBN-13 | 9780217443395 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217443397 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $36.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 312 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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