 | David Knowles - 1976 - 344 sivua
...bloodless revolt that England has ever seen. The king's well-known characterization of the district as 'one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm', and the remark of Cromwell's servant Williams, that he had never seen 'such a sight of asses' as the gentlemen... | |
 | Muriel St. Clare Byrne, Bridget Boland - 1983 - 476 sivua
...suddenly this will to power received an unforeseen check from 'rude and ignorant common people ... of one shire, and that one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm', as he told the rebels themselves in answer to their petition.19 In the first attack on the monasteries,... | |
 | Mervyn Evans James - 1986 - 496 sivua
...the brutal and backward character of the society. Thus Henry VIII's characterization of the shire as "one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm", and John Williams's description of the Lincolnshire gentry as "such a sight of asses, so unlike gentlemen... | |
 | Royal Historical Society - 1998 - 370 sivua
...authority. Henry in his answer to the Lincolnshire rebels hardly includes them in the 'common wealth'; 'the rude commons of one shire, and that one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm'. In the next paragraph he argues that the 'suppression of religious houses and monasteries' was 'granted... | |
 | David Zaret - 2000 - 316 sivua
...nobility. Another writer, Ralph Sadler, then secretary to Thomas Cromwell, drafted the king's response: "How presumptuous then are ye, the rude commons of...one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm ... to find fault with your 29 Christopher Hill, Change and Continuity in 17th-Century England (London,... | |
 | Derek Wilson - 2002 - 620 sivua
...with a mob of semi-literate artisans and renegade priests, Henry harangued them: 'How presumptuous ... are ye, the rude commons of one shire, and that one...of least experience, to find fault with your prince . . ,'139 In the light of the King's intransigence and the approach of royal troops the rebels' courage... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2003 - 796 sivua
...against the King's despised circle of ministers. Of the latter grievance a furious monarch remarked: "How presumptuous then are ye, the rude commons of...least experience, to find fault with your Prince for th' electing of his counsellors and prelates, and to take upon you, contrary to God's law and man's... | |
 | James William Francis Hill, Sir Francis Hill - 1956 - 320 sivua
...return home, deliver up their leaders, and submit to punishment. It contained the famous sentence: 'How presumptuous, then, are ye, the rude commons...beastly of the whole realm, and of least experience, to take upon you, contrary to God's law and man's law, to rule your prince whom you are bound to obey... | |
 | 408 sivua
...involves less guessing to assume that there were two risings. CHAPTER V THE RISING IN LINCOLNSHIRE " How presumptuous then are ye, the rude commons of...of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm. ..to find fault with your Prince?"1 So wrote Henry VIII to the men of Lincolnshire, and it must be... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1889 - 544 sivua
...briefly as follows : — (1) As to the choice of counsellors and bishops, it belongs to princes. " How presumptuous, then, are ye, the rude commons of...one of the most brute and beastly of the whole realm .... to find fault with your prince." (2) As to the suppression of houses, " there are no houses suppressed... | |
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