Descriptive notices of popular English histories / by James Orchard Halliwell.
- James Halliwell-Phillipps
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Descriptive notices of popular English histories / by James Orchard Halliwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![would send liis Lyon Heralds for him; to which George returned the following answer:— ]\Iy honour’d liege, and sovereign king, Of your boasting great I dread no thing ; On your feud or favour I’ll fairly venture ; Ere that day I’ll be where few kings enter. And also gave him many good admonitions and direc- tions concerning the government of his kingdom, and the well-being of his soul, which drew tears from the King’s eyes when he read it. 89. The Witty and Entertaining Exploits of George Buchanan, who was commonly called the King’s Fool, in six parts complete: to Avhich are added several witty and entertaining Jests. 12mo. Stirling, 1799. 90. The History of the Life and Death of Fair Rosamond, King Henry II’s Concubine, shew- ing how Queen Eleanor plotted to destroy Fair Rosamond, to prevent which she was removed to a stately Bower at Woodstock, near Oxford, and while the King was in France, Fair Rosamond was poisoned by Queen Eleanor. 12mo. White- haven, n. d. In seven chapters, pp. 24. Drayton has the fol- lowing notice of Rosamond’s Bower in his Poems, ed. 1637:—“Rosamond’s Labyrinth, whose mines, together with her Well, being paved with square stone in the bottome, and also her Tower from which the Labyrinth did run (are yet remaining) was altogether under ground, being vaults arched and walled with brick and stone, almost inextricably wound one within an-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2203125x_0087.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
