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8 avril 2018
- handle: 10670/1.nf8i07
- isbn: 9782905637277
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Sybil M. Jack, « Henry VIII'S Attitude Towards Royal Finance: Penny wise and pound foolish? », Publications de l’Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion, ID : 10670/1.nf8i07
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A prince is not brought up to be a bookkeeper. Such was the gist of the abuse which Mary hurled at some retreating privy councillors in Edward's reign as she demanded the return of her controller, imprisoned for hearing mass. There is no doubt that her father would have concurred. There is no evidence that Henry enjoyed the routine hearing of accounts. Richard Gibson in preparing his first account for the Revels perhaps caught the spirit in which Henry might have found such medicine palatable...