 I myself1 also was to be enrolled among their number; but I implored some of our leading men, and my intimate friends, that my name should be erased from the list which the queen has in her possession ; and though I could not effect this by my prayers...  Antiquated Spots Round Cheltenham - Pagina 141door William T. Newenham - 1851 - 145 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Hastings Robinson - 1842 - 636 pagina’s
...the queen has in her possession ; and though I could not effect this by my prayers and entreaties, yet I have hitherto, by their assistance, kept my...for I cannot be ambitious of so much misery. I am king here in my parish, and for two years act as sole bishop. The bishop of Gloucester is living all... | |
 | Hastings Robinson - 1842 - 644 pagina’s
...the queen has in her possession ; and though I could not effect this by my prayers and entreaties, yet I have hitherto, by their assistance, kept my...for I cannot be ambitious of so much misery. I am king here in my parish, and for two years act as sole bishop. The bishop of Gloucester is living all... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1851 - 620 pagina’s
...the queen has in her possession : and though I could not effect this by my prayers and entreaties, yet I have hitherto, by their assistance, kept my...of Canterbury, threatened me with I know not what bishopric. But I hope for better things ; for I connot be ambitious of so much misery. I am king here... | |
 | John Williams - 1859 - 284 pagina’s
...Norwich, to Josiah Simler (p. 61) :— " When I was lately in London, one of the Privy Councillors and Parker, the Archbishop of Canterbury, threatened me with I know not what bishopric." This is dated from Bishop's Cleeve, in Gloucestershire, December 20, 1559, and refers to... | |
 | Henry Norbert Birt - 1907 - 708 pagina’s
...should be erased from the list which the Queen has in her possession ; and ... I have hitherto . . . kept my neck out of that halter. When I was lately in London, one of the Privy Councillors, and Parker, the Archbishop of Canterbury, threatened me with I know not what bishopric.... | |
 | Henry Norbert Birt - 1907 - 638 pagina’s
...hitherto . . . kept my neck out of that halter. When I was lately in London, one of the Privy Councillors, and Parker, the Archbishop of Canterbury, threatened me with I know not what bishopric. But I hope for better things; for I can not be ambitious of so much misery." 3 He was elected,... | |
 | William James Heaton - 1913 - 376 pagina’s
...the Queen has in her possession ; and though I could not effect this with my prayers and entreaties, yet I have hitherto, by their assistance, kept my neck out of that halter." Certainly he that desired Cleeve in preference to a Bishopric desired a good thing in such days, but... | |
 | Gary W. Jenkins - 2006 - 324 pagina’s
...for me ... . When I was lately in London ... Parker ... threatened me with I know not what bishopric. But I hope for better things; for I cannot be ambitious of so much misery. I am king here in my parish, and for two years act as sole bishop." Considered by some a poet," in 1542,... | |
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