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acquainted Anthony Rocke appeared apprentice attended Aveline beauty breast bride brought Buckingham chamber Clement Lanyere Council Countess of Exeter Court cried Sir Francis cried Sir Giles cried Sir Jocelyn Dame Sherborne damsel daughter deed demanded deputy-warden Dick Taverner door enemy exclaimed Sir extortioner eyes fair mistress favour Fcap Fleet Prison gaze Gillian give glance Gondomar Grimbald hand heard Highness honour Illustrated by JOHN jailer James JOHN GILBERT jousts King Lady Lake Lady Roos ladyship look Lord Roos Luke Hatton Lupo Vulp Madame Bonaventure maiden Majesty Marquis Marquis of Buckingham master never noble offence old usurer Osmond Mounchensey person Prince Charles promise promoter punishment replied Sir Giles replied Sir Jocelyn royal Sarah Swarton serjeant-at-arms Sir Francis Mitchell Sir Giles Mompesson Sir Giles's Sir Jocelyn Mounchensey Sir Thomas Lake smile Star-Chamber steed sword thee thou tilt-yard tone uttered Whitehall word young knight
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Page 61 - ... of ordnance ; and by them were placed two men for gunners, clothed in crimson sarcenet, with their baskets of earth for defence of their bodies by them. And also there stood on the top of the trench an ensign-bearer, in the same suit with the gunners, displaying his ensign, and within the said trench was cunningly conveyed divers kinds of most excellent music against the Castle of Beauty.
Page 201 - And so 1 doubt not but Camera Stellata (for so I find it called in our ancient Year-books) is most aptly named ; not because the Star-Chamber, where the Court is kept, is so adorned with Stars gilded, as some would have it — for surely the chamber is so adorned because it is the seal of that Court, et denominatio, being a...
Page 61 - ... who performed their parts so valiantly on both sides, that their prowess hath demerited perpetual memory, and worthily won honour, both to themselves and their native country, as fame hath the same reported.
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Page 204 - Fleet; from thence to be whipt to Westminster, and after from the same place to Cheapside, there to be branded with FA, signifying false accusation, one letter on either cheek ; to return back again to the Fleet, there to remain until they do weary of her, and then to be sent to Bridewell, there to spend and end her days.