Marie Louise Bruce > Quotes

“Fate has decreed no stability, only short-lived prosperity, unendurable adversity, now success, now failure.’ John Skelton”
― Marie Louise Bruce, The Making of Henry VIII

“The Statute of Labourers of 1351, declaring it illegal to pay anyone more than was customary before the Black Death in 1348-49, had been reinforced ten years later, under pain of branding, for any man who left his home district to seek higher wages elsewhere.”
― Marie Louise Bruce, The Usurper King: The Fall of Richard II and the Rise of Henry of Bolingbroke, 1366-99

“liveried”
― Marie Louise Bruce, Anne Boleyn