 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 856 pages
...services, sent him a cardinal's hat in May 1535. When Henry was informed of this, he exclaimed : ' Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders,...then; for I will leave him never a head to set it on.' His ruin was now certain. He was accused of high treason, and after a brief trial, was condemned, and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 878 pages
...services, sent him a cardinal's hat in May 1535. When Henry was informed of this, he exclaimed : ' Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders,...; for I will leave him never a head to set it on.' His ruin was now certain. He was accused of high treason, and after a brief trial, was condemned, and... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 872 pages
...regard to the appointment, and being informed that he would accept the cardinal's hat, exclaimed : " Mother of God ! he shall wear it on his shoulders...then, for I will leave him never a head to set it on ! " The uged bishop was at once condemned on the charge of denying the king's supremacy, and was beheaded.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...gift of a cardinal's hat, which drew from Henry the brutal remark : 'Well, let the pope send him a hat a man easier made by chance than his picture? How long might ! ' The English writings of Bishop Fisher consist of sermons, and a few small religious tracts, printed... | |
 | Agnes M. Stewart - 1876 - 400 pages
...This answer was carried back to Henry, who, enraged at the Bishop's dauntless conduct, exclaimed — " Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders then, for I will see he hath never a head to set it on."* We have already quoted from the Harleian MSS. respecting the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...cardinal's hat, which drew from Henry the brutal remark : ' Well, let the pope send him a hat wheu he will; mother of God! he shall wear it on his shoulders,...then, for I will leave him never a head to set it on !' Tlie English, writings of Bishop Fisher consist of sermons, and a few small religious tracts, printed... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - Chelsea (London, England) - 1880 - 340 pages
...Paul III. to reward his fidelity sent him a Cardinal's hat,1 which when Henry heard he exclaimed, " Mother of God ! he shall wear it on his shoulders...then, for I will leave him never a head to set it on." His execution was immediately ordered, and he was beheaded a fortnight before More. But in contrast... | |
 | Jean L. Watson - 1880 - 236 pages
...this ho oxcltuiuod " Let tho Pope send him a hat when he will. Mother of God I ho shall -wear it upon his shoulders then, for I will leave him never a head to set it on." On tho 17th of Juno, 1585, tho Lord Chancellor Audley tuid the- othor commissioners, being seated in... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - Church and state - 1881 - 298 pages
...indignantly exclaimed — "Well, let the Pope send him a Cardinal's hat when he will. Holy Mother ! he shall wear it on his shoulders then, for I will leave him never a head to set it on." And he kept his word. For soon after, this venerable and upright Prelate, whose character and services... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - Church and state - 1881 - 342 pages
...exclaimed — "Well, let the Pope send himl Cardinal's hat when he will. Holy Mother ! he shall \vea.f on his shoulders then, for I will leave him never a head to set it on." And he kept his word. For soon after, this venerable and upright Prelate, whose character and services... | |
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Yea, is he yet so lusty ? Well, let the pope send him a hat when he will, Mother of God, he shall wear it on his shoulders then ; for I will leave him never a head to set it on. 
