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It became the fashion in the upper classes to enrol oneself among the Tertiaries, and every new enrolment was an important accession to the stability, and, indeed, to the material resources of the Minorites; and when, apparently within a few days of one another no less than five gentlemen of knightly rank, of whom at least one, Sir Giles de Merc, had only recently been employed as an envoy by the king to his brother Richard in Gascony, and another, Sir Henry de Walpole, was amongst the most considerable and wealthy men in the eastern counties, Henry the Third spoke out his mind and showed that he was not too well-pleased.
Soon after his arrival, he was invited to attend and Merc. Polit. No. 604. Philips, 595. Jour. Jan. 30. Skinner, 219-221. Philips, 594, 595, 596. Clar. Pap. iii. 666, 668. receive the thanks of the house. If there was much in this speech to please, there was also much that gave offence. Scot observed that the servant had already learned to give directions to his masters.
Then the distances are curiously relative. It has been found that if we place the following line of numbers, and add 4 to each, we shall have a series denoting the respective distances of the planets from the sun. It will stand thus 4 7 10 16 28 52 100 196 Merc. Venus. Earth. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn. Uranus.
It could not be, that vanity alone induced him to hazard the attachment of his friends for the sake of mere parade and empty sound. He had rendered the more modest title of protector as great and as formidable as that of Sewel, 260-273, 283, 393. State Trials, v. 810-842. Merc. Polit.
At the same time the public mind was agitated by the circulation of reports the most unfounded, and the advocacy of projects the most contradictory. This day it was rumoured that Cromwell had offered to recall Leicester's Journal, 142. Merc. Polit.
That which distinguished the present from the late form of government was the return which it made towards the more ancient institutions of the country. Merc. Polit. No. 369. Parl. Hist. iii. 1514, and Prestwick's Relation, App. to Burton's Diary, ii. 511. Most of the officers took the oath of fidelity to the protector.
This seems to us clearly to show that the common estimation was but the most generally received test of what the just price in fact was, but that it was in no sense a final or irrefutable criterion. Merc., ii. xv. The theory that the just price was objective seems to be accepted by the majority of the best modern students of the subject.
The entrance of the bay was commanded by the guns of the castle; seven batteries erected at intervals along the beach protected the rest of the harbour; and these were connected with each other by covered ways lined with musketry. So confident was the governor when he surveyed these preparations, that, in the pride of his heart, he desired a Dutch Merc. Pol. 39.
Querela Cantab. in Merc. away; part after part was detached from the edifice; and the reformers hastened to raise what they deemed a more scriptural fabric on the ruins.
But these intrigues were now at an end; by the dissolution Richard had signed his own deposition; though he continued to reside at Whitehall, the government fell into abeyance; even the officers, who had hitherto frequented England's Confusion, 9. Clarendon Papers, 451, 456. Ludlow, ii. 174. Merc.
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