 | Belgravia - 1866 - 552 pages
...roused at last to true Tudor vehemence, wrote him the following startling and unambiguous letter : ' PROUD PRELATE, — I understand you are backward in...if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by G — d I will immediately unfrock you ! ELIZARETH.' Was a paltry bishop to brave the lion-hearted... | |
 | Mark Lemon - 1867 - 368 pages
...remarkable for its brevity and emphasis, in which she swore a good Tudor oath to unfrock Cox : — " 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 Haines McCulloh - 1867 - 434 pages
...the lands of that see to Sir Christopher Hatton, Queen Elizabeth addressed him the following letter: "Proud Prelate, — I understand you are backward...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 fulfill your... | |
 | Mark Lemon - 1867 - 364 pages
...brevity and emphasis, in which she swore a good Tudor oath to unfrock Cox :— " 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,... | |
 | Sir Edward Sullivan - 1868 - 226 pages
...letter, written hy Queen Elizabeth to a Bishop of Ely, preserved in the Register of the See : — " Proud Prelate — I understand you are backward in...; 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 God I will unfrock you." —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock yon. I'.ii /.MU-.TII. In 1576 he obtained an act for the assurance of hii lands, and was gratified... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1870 - 494 pages
...Elizabeth wrote the following 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... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby - 1870 - 520 pages
...pious purposes to purposes less pious, he was favoured with the following extraordinary letter : — " PROUD PRELATE ! — I understand you are backward...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... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1870 - 816 pages
...complying with your agreement ; but I would hare ron know that I who made you what yon are can unmake yon ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock yon. ELIZAIIKTH. In 1576 he obtained an act for the assurance of hie lands, and was gratified with... | |
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