The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547): Second Edition
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The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547): Second Edition
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources; Reformation -- England
In this time, there was by the Frenchmen a voyage made towards the
Isle of Brazil, with a ship called the Barque Ager, which they had
taken from the Englishmen before. And in their way they fortuned to
meet suddenly with a little Craer, of whom was Master one Golding,
which Golding was a fierce and an hardy man. The barque perceiving
this small Craer to be an Englishman, shot at him and boughed him,
wherefore the Craer drew straight to the great ship, and six or seven
of the men leapt into the Barque: the Frenchmen looking over the board
at the sinking of the Craer, nothing mistrusting anything, that might
be done by the Englishmen. And so it fortuned that those Englishmen
which climbed into the ship, found in the end thereof a great number
of lime pots, which they with water quenched, or rather as the nature
thereof is, set them a fire, and threw them at the Frenchmen that were
aboard, and so blinded them, that those few Englishmen that entered
the ship, vanquished all that were therein, and drove them under
hatches, and brought the barque clearly away again into England.
SPEECH MADE BY KING HENRY VIII. AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT (1546).
+Source.+--Edward Hall's _Henry VIII_.
Although my Chancellor for the time being, hath before this time used,
very eloquently and substantially, to make answer to such orations, as
hath been set forth in this high court of Parliament, yet is he not so
able to open and set forth my mind and meaning, and the secrets of my
heart, in so plain and ample manner, as I myself am and can do;
wherefor I taking upon me to answer your eloquent oration, Master
Speaker, say, that where you, in the name of our well-beloved Commons
hath both praised and extolled me, for the notable qualities that you
have conceived to be in me, I most heartily thank you all, that you
have put me in remembrance of my duty, which is to endeavour myself to
obtain and get such excellent qualities, and necessary virtues, as a
Prince or Governor, should or ought to have, of which gifts I
recognize myself both bare and barren; but of such small qualities as
God hath endued me withal, I render to his goodness my most humble
thanks, intending with all my wit and diligence, to get and acquire to
me such notable virtues and princely qualities as you have alleged to
be incorporate in my person. These thanks for your loving admonition
and good counsel first remembered, eftsoons thank you again, because
that you, considering our great charges (not for our pleasure, but for
your defences, not for our gain, but to our great cost), which we have
lately sustained, as well in defence of our and your enemies, as for
the conquest of that fortress, which was to this realm, most
displeasant and noisome, and shall be by God's grace hereafter, to our
nation most profitable and pleasant, have freely of your own mind,
granted to us a certain subsidy specified in a certain act, which
verily we take in good part, regarding more your kindness, than the
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