Example sentences of "in henry [adj] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd look good in Henry VIII 's court . ’ |
| 2 | The dissolution of the monasteries in Henry VIII 's reign has never been forgotten . |
| 3 | ( In Henry VIII 's reign , the great Dutch scholar Erasmus was given the benefice of Aldington in Kent and had it commuted for a pension of £20 , charged on the living . ) |
| 4 | The subsequent courts of sewers were steadily reinforced by successive legislation , culminating in 1532 in Henry VIII 's Statute of Sewers , just at the moment when the power of the monastic lords of the levels was broken by the Reformation . |
| 5 | Other districts were illegally withdrawn from the Forest jurisdiction by magnates to make their private chases — such as the Earl Marshal 's chase near Chepstow , carved out of the Forest of Dean early in Henry III 's reign ; the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 's chase of Cannock ; and the Bishop of Ely 's chase of Somersham . |
| 6 | Already their numbers had been so diminished by persecution and by unfavourable trading terms in Henry III 's reign that the tallage which they paid annually to the king was less under Edward I than he might gain by seizing their estates and inducing a clerical subsidy by their expulsion . |
| 7 | All this concerns Aquitaine because Earl Reginald 's eldest daughter , Sarah , had been given in marriage to Aimar of Limoges while he was a minor in Henry II 's custody . |
| 8 | They had been dominant there since the late fourteenth century , played an important part in Henry IV 's usurpation in 1399 but were forfeited for revolt a few years later . |
| 9 | He first appears in the records as a junior clerk or singing-man in Henry VI 's chapel royal , in 1441 . |
| 10 | By the beginning of the seventeenth century the secretary hand had been almost entirely superseded by the ‘ Italian ’ hand , introduced in Henry VII 's reign by his Latin secretary . |
| 11 | Similarly , if in a much more restrained manner , the Englishman , John Page , himself a soldier in Henry V 's army , described in detail and in passages of considerable emotion the sufferings of the helpless civilians during the six-month-long siege of Rouen which ended in January 1419 . |