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A History of the County of Bedford
… his biographer Boswell are connected with Southill. John Dilly, brother of Edward and Charles Dilly, the booksellers in the Poultry, lived here, and was …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… one of their chief complaints during this period is the dilly-dallying of Tyrone and his confederates. The Irish …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Her father, too, said that the King would have no more dilly-dallying ;he would complete the marriage, and when it …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… Majesty. I answered in a joking way telling her not to dilly-dally any longer, but to satisfy Lord Robert at once, …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… margin. 19 April 242 In Warrant Book, vol. 30, 176066. Dilly or Dally, Edward, of the city of London, bookseller. …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… Nov. 469 In Warrant Book, vol. 30, 176066. Law, Bedwell, Dilly, Edward, of the city of London, book-sellers. The …
The Environs of London
… He was author of a poem called Patriotism, reprinted in Dilly's repository; Philodamus, a tragedy, and the Wishes, a …
Old and New London
… 22 was the house of Johnson's friends, Edward and Charles Dilly, the booksellers. Here, in the year 1773, Boswell and … the latter still brooding over his sharp reprimand at Dilly's. Johnson, magnanimous as a lion, at once said aside … of complacency. But the most memorable evening recorded at Dilly's was April 15, 1778, when Johnson and Boswell dined …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… to the Glass Commissioners of the petition of John Dilly, a collector of the Duties on tobacco pipes, …