Category: Biographies
To write the full life of Mary Tudor, second daughter of Henry VII., is to attempt the impossible, for the term usually implies a consecutive story from the gate of birth to that of death. We do know now the dates written over both these gates, but while her early days are shr...
So far as consecutive dated documents go, Mary's history comes to an end with her open marriage, for this last chapter is largely made up of odds and ends of information, undate...
12. CHAPTER IXThe commission of the Duke of Suffolk, Sir Richard Wingfield, and Dr West was for the renewing of the peace with France which had been concluded with Louis XII. for the lives of...
11. CHAPTER VIIITradition says that Mary fainted on being told of the death of her husband, and in spite of the covert sneers of his countrymen, the thing is not impossible, for her situation,...
8. CHAPTER VThough Louis de Longueville has always had the credit of arranging the match between the Princess Mary and Louis XII. of France, there was another who claimed openly the initiat...
6. CHAPTER IIIThe musters of the mercenaries had been fixed for Dunkirk on May 20, and the captain of the vanguard, the Earl of Shrewsbury, was to be at Calais on the 16th,[133] but, as is so...
4. CHAPTER ITo write the full life of Mary Tudor, second daughter of Henry VII., is to attempt the impossible, for the term usually implies a consecutive story from the gate of birth to tha...
5. CHAPTER IIHenry VII. on his death-bed saw clearly that his policy of thwarting Ferdinand and seizing the government of Castile in favour of his son-in-law was not one which could be follo...
7. CHAPTER IVHenry had arranged with Margaret that the marriage of Mary and the Prince should take place at Calais in six months' time, on May 15, and for that purpose he began making arrang...
13. CHAPTER XThey turned to the question of money. Henry had already, at the instance of his Council perhaps, told Suffolk that he was not quite content with his handling of the dower questi...
9. CHAPTER VIMary's lodging is said to have been "at the corner of the street leading from the Castle of Ponthieu to the rue St Giles," and this, according to "Le Roi des Ribauds," was conne...
15. PART II.--A SELECTION OF SERIESBRISTOL. Alfred Harvey. CANTERBURY. J. C. COX. CHESTER. Sir B. C. A. Windle. DUBLIN. S. A. O. Fitzpatrick. EDINBURGH. M. G. Williamson. LINCOLN. E. Mansel Sympson. SHREWSBURY. T...
16. PART III.--A SELECTION OF WORKS OF FICTION=Albanesi (E. Maria).= SUSANNAH AND ONE OTHER. _Fourth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6s._ I KNOW A MAIDEN. _Third Edition. Cr. 8vo. 6s._ THE INVINCIBLE AMELIA; OR, THE POLITE ADVENTURESS. _...
10. CHAPTER VIIOn Monday, September 28, before the marriage, Montjoye, the French Herald, had carried the French challenge to England, and the jousts had been proclaimed at Canterbury by the G...
3. CHAPTER XI1. CHAPTER IV2. CHAPTER VIII