 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1872 - 620 páginas
...he was pleased to see work done in a business-like manner. Turning to his courtiers, he observed, " that he thought he had not in his realm so many persons...maintained in living by so little land and rent." He added, "pity it were these lands should be altered to make them worse." Parker shrewdly remarks,... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1872 - 624 páginas
...he was pleased to see work done in a business-like manner. Turning to his courtiers, he observed, " that he thought he had not in his realm so many persons...maintained in living by so little land and rent." He added, "pity it were these lands should be altered to make them worse." Parker shrewdly remarks,... | |
 | James Bass Mullinger - 1873 - 796 páginas
...out to seize the property of the college, king Henry refused to sanction the spoliation, observing that ' he thought he had not in his realm so many persons so honestly maintained in land and living, by so little land and rent1.' The university had scarcely ceased to congratulate itself... | |
 | Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) - 1910 - 526 páginas
...were able to convince him of the usefulness of the colleges : he confessed, on hearing their report, that he " thought he had not in his realm so many...honestly maintained in living by so little land and rent."2 In 1546 he united the royal foundation of King's Hall and the smaller college of Michaelhouse,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gray - 1899 - 352 páginas
...Mullinger, " Univ. of Camb.," ii. 79) an account of the King's comments on the report and his decision. " He thought he had not in his realm so many persons...maintained in living by so little land and rent." Henry then inquired why the expenditure exceeded the revenue, and was told that " it rose partly of... | |
 | Ernest Stewart Roberts, Edward John Gross - 1901 - 558 páginas
...Universities to that of the Monasteries ; and it was after reading the results that the king remarked that he " thought he had not in his realm- so many persons so honestly maynteyned in lyvyng bi so little loud and rent" (v. Mullinger's History, II. 79). £ ». d. Peterhouse... | |
 | William Paul McClure Kennedy - 1908 - 338 páginas
...Court and presented him with a summary of the results of their work. The King diligently read this, and " in a certain admiration said to certain of his...lords which stood by that he thought he had not in this realm so many persons so honestly maintained in living by so little land and rent." Henry, however,... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1909 - 478 páginas
...accounts of the society, and thereupon peremptorily refused to sanction the proposed spoliation, observing that " he thought he had not in his realm so many...maintained in living by so little land and rent." In one respect, mdeed, the dispersion of the monastic communities proved directly detrimental to the... | |
 | Henry Lowther Clarke - 1912 - 278 páginas
...An account of this in Parker's handwriting remains, and the King, after hearing the petition, said, "He thought he had not in his realm so many persons...maintained in living by so little land and rent." This royal opinion protected the University, and the College / properties were saved from the all-devouring... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson - 1920 - 420 páginas
...foundations were threatened, but the Commissioners gave so favourable a report that Henry VIII. confessed that he " thought he had not in his realm so many...maintained in living by so little land and rent." A second Commission in 1 549 imposed new statutes on the Colleges. As a result of the Marian reaction,... | |
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Parker who was present as chief commissioner, he looked up and 'in a certain admiration said to certain of his lords which stood by, that he thought he had not in his realm so many persons so honestly maintained in living by so little land and rent'. 
