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Old and New London
… soldier who had served under the Duke of Bedford in the French wars, for he was "barbarously taken hence to death." … of these works Caxton himself had translated from the French, and the copies of it bore date 1474. In Timbs' …
Survey of London
… surprising echo in the arches, brings much company with French horns to entertain themselves under it in summer; and …
Old and New London
… either in Greeke, Latine, Italian, Spanish, Portugall, French, or Englishe languages." He died in 1616, aged …
Old and New London
… the Second, reflecting not on politics but the poetry of a French minister, plunged France into the Seven Years' War; …
Old and New London
… In Little Dean Street stood one of the chapels of the French Huguenot Refugees, removed hither about the year 1700, … was stabbed, though not fatally, with a penknife, by a French noble refugee, the Marquis de Guiscard, who was … of the ancient city. Du Chatelet, the celebrated French statistician, shows that the "Quartier de la Cit"now …
Old and New London
… known as "The Mall," under the direction of Le Notre, the French landscape gardener, who was also commissioned to lay … people over on his back through the water." Le Serre, a French writer, in his account of the visit of the … them, and that they marched to their barge with a boat of French horns attending, and little Ashe singing.' "Now-a-days …
Old and New London
… principally resided; and "Petty France," where lived the French merchants, who came over to trade at the Staple. An … then called Petty France, but on the occasion of the French Revolutionary War, newly named York Street, in horror … the existence of the secret negotiations between the French King and the General, a discovery which placed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… j but in the following reign, having been burnt by the French, it became so greatly impoverished, that the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (late), Rates. White vinegar [w't vyneg'; white french vinegar] Almost certainly an alternative name for … although it could be DISTILLED VINEGAR. Found described as FRENCH Found in units of GALLON See also RED VINEGAR. … was probably made in France by the method described under FRENCH VINEGAR. The vinegar was also used to make a SYRUP …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… its English estates, including Wheatenhurst, for the French estates of Bruton Priory (Som.). 40 The prior of the …