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Calendar of Treasury Books
… VI, pp. 12651328; Trevelyan, op. cit. pp. 274, 275); Defoe's irony again brought him into trouble over three …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… the 11th article of the Union] as far as it extended. Defoe says ( History of the Union , p. 574) that the … to the Queen's Civil List the sums thus advanced. Defoe continues as follows: On the 1st of May 1708 the …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Mrs. Judith Weston, bounty 30 0 0 May 13 Paid Mr. Norton Defoe, ditto 50 0 0 168 May 17 Paid Mr. George Dowdall, ditto …
The Commissions for Building Fifty New Churches
… building of new churches was coming to be widely accepted. Defoe, in the early 1720s, could refer to London 'in the … . .and the vast extent of ground taken in' had been made, Defoe remarked, 'not only within our memory, but even within … [ CJ], XVI, 495. Ibid. Atterbury, ii, 312. CJ XVI, 567. D. Defoe, A Tour through England and Wales (17246), Everyman …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Neither the assurances of the new ministers nor the pen of Defoe or Swift or Davenant could arrest the fall and when …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… the Officers to their poverty and distress just as he left Defoe in prison after having stolen his brains. During the …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… the 25th April onwards we have the additional advantage of Defoe's pre?cis of the Minutes interspersed with his running … opportunity for the play of his evil genius. He despatched Defoe to Edinburgh and there Defoe played a part which now stands partially revealed to us …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Roman remains [Woodward's Letter to Hearne]. According to Defoe it was found in connection with remains of a building … and a second head was also found and left in quicksand [D. Defoe, Tour through Britain, I, 234]. St. Thomas's Hospital, …
Old and New London
… in thirty-two prisons. He died in 1630, aged eighty-one. Defoe was educated at a Nonconformist seminary at Islington, …
The Environs of London
… (now in the British Museum), died at Islington in 1716 83. Defoe, the wellknown author of Robinson Crusoe, and many …