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... town ; who , to the information of the scholar , unites the urbanity of the gentleman . Among the other individuals whose polite at- tentions I am at liberty to acknowledge , I have the pleasure to in- clude the EARLS of CLARENDON and ...
... town ; who , to the information of the scholar , unites the urbanity of the gentleman . Among the other individuals whose polite at- tentions I am at liberty to acknowledge , I have the pleasure to in- clude the EARLS of CLARENDON and ...
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... town of ST . ALBAN'S arose from the ashes of Verulam , it becomes necessary to revert to the martyrdom of Albanus , whose sufferings and piety procured him an early admission into the calendar of Saints ; and from whom the town itself ...
... town of ST . ALBAN'S arose from the ashes of Verulam , it becomes necessary to revert to the martyrdom of Albanus , whose sufferings and piety procured him an early admission into the calendar of Saints ; and from whom the town itself ...
Pagina 37
... town , safe and conimo- dious for merchants and travellers . The Watling Street , as well as many parts of the Chiltern Hills , being covered with thick woods and groves , had become the haunts of wolves , wild boars , stags , and wild ...
... town , safe and conimo- dious for merchants and travellers . The Watling Street , as well as many parts of the Chiltern Hills , being covered with thick woods and groves , had become the haunts of wolves , wild boars , stags , and wild ...
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... town ; but his anger being softened by the intercession of Sayer , Earl of Winchester , he consented to delay the execution of his vengeance , on the payment of eighty marks . The town and Abbey were again in great danger , early in the ...
... town ; but his anger being softened by the intercession of Sayer , Earl of Winchester , he consented to delay the execution of his vengeance , on the payment of eighty marks . The town and Abbey were again in great danger , early in the ...
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... town , respecting the Abbey - mills , which the towns - people wished to apply to the fulling of cloth , contrary to the will of the Abbot : these differences were adjusted by the interference of the Queen ; but they had already proved ...
... town , respecting the Abbey - mills , which the towns - people wished to apply to the fulling of cloth , contrary to the will of the Abbot : these differences were adjusted by the interference of the Queen ; but they had already proved ...
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Pagina 381 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Pagina 574 - Day she was dressed in white Silk, bordered with Pearls of the Size of Beans, and over it a Mantle of black Silk, shot with Silver Threads; her Train was very long, the End of it borne by a Marchioness; instead of a Chain, she had an oblong Collar of Gold and Jewels.
Pagina 377 - And yet I lived to see this very gentleman, whom out of no ill will to him I thus describe, by multiplied good successes and by real (but usurped) power (having had a better tailor and more converse among good company) in my own eye, when for six weeks together I was a prisoner in his sergeant's hands and daily waited at Whitehall, appear of a great and majestic deportment and comely presence.
Pagina 385 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Pagina 574 - ... next came the queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic ; her face oblong, fair, but wrinkled ; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant; her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow; and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
Pagina 118 - England, shall undergo fine and ransom of fortythousand pounds, that he shall be imprisoned 'in the Tower during the king's pleasure, that he shall for ever be incapable of any office or employment in the state or commonwealth, and that he shall never sit in parliament^ or come within the verge of the court.
Pagina 377 - House well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and' not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to...
Pagina 432 - A Declaration of the free and well-affected People of England now in Arms ' (or shortly to be in Arms) ' against the tyrant Oliver Cromwell...
Pagina 384 - And thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own consciences, and without, by good iron arms, they would as one man stand firmly and charge desperately.
Pagina 427 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.