Thomas Walsingham Quotes

What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. - Thomas Walsingham

In the year of our lord 1376 a parliament was held at London by command of the king, which began about the octave of St. George and lasted almost continuously for nine weeks. There the king urgently demanded a subsidy from the common people. - Thomas Walsingham

For who would ever have believed that such rustics, and most inferior ones at that, would dare (not in crowds but individually) to enter the chamber of the king and of his mother with their filthy sticks; and undeterred by any of the soldiers, to stroke and lay their uncouth and sordid hands on the beards of several most noble knights. - Thomas Walsingham

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