 | Sir Cusack Patrick Roney - 1868 - 568 pages
...Chancellors of England, gives tbe exact words of this celebrated letter. " PROCD PRELATE, I understand yon are backward in complying with your agreement ; but I would have you to know that I who made yon what you are. can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement by... | |
 | Sir Edward Sullivan - 1868 - 226 pages
...Elizabeth to a Bishop of Ely, preserved in the Register of the See : — " Proud Prelate — I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement ; but I would have you know, that I who made you, can unmake you j and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, ly... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1870 - 494 pages
...letter, when he hesitated to eoraply with one, of her demands : — " Proud prelate, — I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement, but I would have you to know that I. who made you what you are, eau un make you — and if you do not forthwith fullil your agreement,... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby - 1870 - 520 pages
...pious, he was favoured with the following extraordinary letter : — " PROUD PRELATE ! — I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement, but I would have you to know that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1870 - 620 pages
...Queen to a brother Prelate, which contained a memorable threat.3 ' Proud Prelate, — I understand your are backward in . . complying with your agreement ; but I would have you to know that I who made you what you are can unmake you, and if yon do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1870 - 826 pages
...the interference of the queen in the following well-known letter:— Frond Prelate ! I understand yon are backward in complying with your agreement ; but I would have you know that I who made you what you are can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 510 pages
...addressed to the latter prelate the following memorable epistle :— " PROUD PRELATE, " I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement, but I would have you know that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
 | England - 1871 - 836 pages
...majesty honoured him with a letter under her own hand. "Proud prelate," the queen wrote, " I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement, but I would have you know that I who made you what you are can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 566 pages
...violent letter; several times, with some variations, reprinted : — 'Proud prelate; ' I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement ; but I would have you to know, that I who made you what you are can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...preserved in the register of that see. It is written in these words : " Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement ; but I would have you know that I, who made you what you 'are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
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Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement: but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. Yours,... 
