Memoirs of prince Rupert and the Cavaliers including their private correspondence, Band 2 |
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... ENGLAND . BATTLES IN THE WEST . SIEGE OF LICHFIELD . - WALLER'S PLOT . THE COVENANT . — CHALGROVE FIGHT , AND DEATH OF HAMPDEN • • CHAPTER III . · 89 TO THE END OF 1643 . ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN AT OXFORD . SIEGE OF BRISTOL AND GLOU ...
... ENGLAND . BATTLES IN THE WEST . SIEGE OF LICHFIELD . - WALLER'S PLOT . THE COVENANT . — CHALGROVE FIGHT , AND DEATH OF HAMPDEN • • CHAPTER III . · 89 TO THE END OF 1643 . ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN AT OXFORD . SIEGE OF BRISTOL AND GLOU ...
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... England resumed her old martial nature , and the chivalry of her earlier days revived . Those only who have witnessed it , can judge of the excite- ment of an army's first march ; before disaster has withered one of its high hopes , or ...
... England resumed her old martial nature , and the chivalry of her earlier days revived . Those only who have witnessed it , can judge of the excite- ment of an army's first march ; before disaster has withered one of its high hopes , or ...
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... England , as well as horseman or trooper . The name of Cavalier , which our ene- mies have striven to make odious , signifies no more than a gen- tleman serving his King on horseback . Shew yourselves , there- fore , now courageous ...
... England , as well as horseman or trooper . The name of Cavalier , which our ene- mies have striven to make odious , signifies no more than a gen- tleman serving his King on horseback . Shew yourselves , there- fore , now courageous ...
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... England dashed ; in generous rivalry each seeking to strike the first home - stroke " for God and for the King ! " What could abide that thundering charge , all spur , no rein , every heart within that flashing armour was on fire ...
... England dashed ; in generous rivalry each seeking to strike the first home - stroke " for God and for the King ! " What could abide that thundering charge , all spur , no rein , every heart within that flashing armour was on fire ...
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... 83 . 2 Ludlow , i . 49 . 3 That evening he was knighted under its shadow , the first knight banneret made in England for one hundred years . He " When Prince Rupert returned with such troops as he 26 MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF.
... 83 . 2 Ludlow , i . 49 . 3 That evening he was knighted under its shadow , the first knight banneret made in England for one hundred years . He " When Prince Rupert returned with such troops as he 26 MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF.
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arms army Arthur Aston artillery Banbury battle believe besiegers brave Bristol Byron Captain Castle Cavaliers charge Charles Cirencester Clarendon's Rebellion Colonel command Cromwell desire dragoons Duke Earl Earl of Essex Earl of Newcastle enemy enemy's England Essex Fairfax fight forces gallant garrison give Gloucester governor Hampden haste hath Highness Highness's most humble hither honour hope Hopton humble servant hundred horse King King's Legge letter London Lord Byron Lord Clarendon Lord Digby Lord Hopton Lord Newcastle Majesty Majesty's Marquis morning musketeers Newark Nicholas night officers Oxford Parliament Parliamentary peace plundering Prince Maurice Prince Rupert Prince Rupert's Diary Prince's prisoners quarters Queen RALPH HOPTON rebels received regiment rest retreat Roundheads Royal Scots sent shew shot side siege Sir John Sir John Berkeley Sir William Waller slain soldiers soon Tertia town trainbands troops unto victory Warwick Wilmot Worcester writes
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 402 - Given under my hand and seal at this day of ' AD Form of Warrant of Committal.
Seite 41 - If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Seite 317 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand.
Seite 457 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Seite 480 - And to be short, all that ever the people of Rome might do either in centuriatis comitiis or tributis, the same may be done by the parliament of England which representeth and hath the power of the whole realm, both the head and body.
Seite 486 - Thus, having had so long patience with the disturbance of that, that should be one of my greatest contentments, I can no longer suffer those, that I know to be the cause and fomenters of these humours, to be about my wife any longer ; which I must do, if it were but for one action they made my wife do, which is, to make her go to Tyburn in devotion to pray; which action can have no greater invective made against it, than the relation.
Seite 438 - York be relieved, and you beat the rebels army of both kingdoms, which are before it; then (but otherwise not) I may make a shift (upon the defensive) to spin out time until you come to assist me. Wherefore I command and conjure you, by the duty and affection which I know you bear me, that all new enterprises laid aside, you immediately march, according to your first intention, with all your force to the relief of York.
Seite 19 - King is come to marshal us, in all his armour drest, And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He looked upon his people, and a tear was in his eye; He looked upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing, Down all our line, a deafening shout, "God save our Lord the King!
Seite 41 - ... please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses
Seite 294 - ... received small comfort from that imagination. Thus fell that incomparable young man in the four-and-thirtieth year of his age, having so much despatched the true business of life that the eldest rarely attain to that immense knowledge, and the youngest enter not into the world with more innocency. Whosoever leads such a life, needs be the less anxious upon how short warning it is taken from him.