 | Anonymous - 1863 - 602 pàgines
...no defence. In the language of a writer of the day — ' The Queen poor ; the realm exhausted ; the nobility poor and decayed ; good captains and soldiers...Scotland ; steadfast enemies, but no steadfast friends." ' — ip 8. Besides this total destitution of all materials, even of defence, there was a debt then... | |
 | 1863 - 652 pàgines
...dear ; excesses in meat, diet, and apparel ; division among ourselves ; war with Franco ; the Frenen king bestriding the realm, having one foot in Calais...Scotland ; steadfast enemies, but no steadfast friends." —I. p, 8. Besides this total destitution of all materials, even of defence, there was a debt then... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1865 - 804 pàgines
...; excess of meat, drink, and apparel ; " division among ourselves ; war with France and Scotland ; the French " King bestriding the realm, having one...in Calais and the other in " Scotland ; steadfast enmity, but no steadfast friendship abroad." — RO Domestic, vol. i. No. 66. of that ecclesiastical... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1863 - 574 pàgines
...summed ditlon of"" Up in a few pregnant sentences. ' The Queen poor ; the England. rea}m exhausted ; the nobility poor and decayed ; good captains and soldiers...that they still believed in the necessity of some denned conviction. They believed it still to be their duty to profess, as a Christian people, a national... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1875 - 642 pàgines
...of England were summed up in a few pregnant sentences. ' The Queen poor ; the realm exhausted ; the nobility poor and decayed ; good captains and soldiers...in Scotland ; steadfast enemies, but no steadfast friends.1 2 Beyond all these political difficulties, and at the heart and root of them, lay the differences... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1879 - 612 pàgines
...in the extreme. As put in a document of the time, " She herself was poor ; the realm exhausted ; the nobility poor and decayed ; good captains and soldiers...having one foot in Calais and the other in Scotland " — by the marriage of the young Queen Mary to the Dauphin ; — " steadfast enemies, but no steadfast... | |
 | M. J. Guest - 1879 - 700 pàgines
...things dear ; . . . division among ourselves ; war with France ; the French king bestriding the realm, one foot in Calais, and the other in Scotland ; steadfast enemies, but no steadfast friends." This was how Elizabeth found England ; how she left it we shall see. 5. Everything depended on her... | |
 | Epochs - 1882 - 794 pàgines
...position of the country in the latter days of Queen Mary : — "The Queen poor, the realm exhausted, the nobility poor and decayed ; good captains and soldiers...Scotland ; steadfast enemies, but no steadfast friends." The general bitterness and distrust engendered by the persecutions in the name of religion, was felt... | |
 | Montague John Guest - 1891 - 616 pàgines
.... . . division among ourselves ; war with France ; the French king bestriding the realm, one fo.it in Calais, and the other in Scotland ; steadfast enemies, but no steadfast friends." This was how Elizabeth found England ; how she left it we shall see. 5. Everything depended on her... | |
 | Montague John Guest - 1894 - 656 pàgines
...things dear ; . . . division among ourselves ; war with France ; the French king bestriding the realm, one foot in Calais, and the other in Scotland ; steadfast enemies, but no steadfast friends." Elizabeth's wisdom in her choice of counsellors and ministers was marvellous. Perhaps no sovereign... | |
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France ; the French King bestriding the realm, having one foot in Calais and the other in Scotland... 
