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Prisoners' Letters to the Bank of England, 1781-1827

… the Old Bailey in February 1814. She was then taken to the grim and insalubrious prison of Newgate, her four young … women, and the condition of prisoners deteriorated in the grim gaols in which they were held for many months, and on …

Introduction

Old and New London

… plaistered head, whom Hogarth has represented mounting grim sentry in his "Southwark Fair." The great building at …

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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

… can give me comfort p. 289). The Lord Keeper, held by two grim gaolers, gout and melancholy, moans that though he might …

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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

… the sacred fame even of her Majesty. He gives a hint of grim methods when he writes : When I have apprehended him, …

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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

… to issue them, when they did come. The spirit in which the grim work of repression was carried on, is shown in what Lord …

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Survey of London

… richly moulded timber cornices and canopies now stands a grim and melancholy casual ward. Where was the stately house …

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)

… now that he had got him, and we can imagine the King's grim smile when in answer to Englefield's recommendation that …

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)

… been ruinous, were really so many points in her favour. Grim and subtle statesmen like Alba, de Granvelle and Philip …

Introduction to Witney and its townships

A History of the County of Oxford

… Iron-Age earthwork known as the North Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch, which cuts across the parish's northern part, …