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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… about one-half are sold to the owners of vessels from the French coast; of the remainder about 120 lasts are cured for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… frieze of running foliage and eleven early 16th-century French panels with carved enrichments including tracery, …
Old and New London
… Jacobson, King James's jeweller, had dwelt. After that, French Protestant silk-weavers settled in the part of the …
Old and New London
… that unhappy frontier then, and later, contended for by French and Germansjust as Chandos Street and that shy … Did the new authors starve the hungry pit! Infected by the French, you must have rhyme, Which long to please the ladies' … spectacle, had succeeded the Tempest. St. Andr and his French dancers were probably engaged in Shadwell's piece. The …
Survey of London
… and devices for a Pastorall to bee acted there by certen French Ladies and others." (P.R.O., E. 351/3269.) P.R.O., E. … furniture and accommodation. Here I saw the new fabric of French tapestry, for design, tenderness of work, and … had Versailles, St. Germains, and other palaces of the French King, with huntings, figures, and landscapes, exotic …
Survey of London
… of wyndows." 59 Later in the month Elizabeth received the French ambassadors with much pomp and ceremony. On 24th May … 82 this was provided away from the Palace. The Queen's French attendants (who, after all, were practically the only … Courte for the receavinge of the duke memorancie the French Embassador and his Traye for alteringe divers Lodgings …
Old and New London
… the Cardinal, 'I shall desire you, because ye can speak French, to take the pains to go down into the hall to … to my duty.' Then spake to them my Lord Chamberlain in French, declaring my Lord Cardinal's mind; and they, rounding … was well stored with booksnot only in English and French, but in Greek and Italian; and her autographs show …
Old and New London
… Hervey, in 1762, "is taken for the Duc de Nivernois, the French Ambassador." His name will be remembered as one of the …
Old and New London
… five eagles and four other standards, captured from the French in the Peninsula, were publicly deposited in this …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Very cold, but not snowing. No news. It is said that the French have now 1000000 men in the Crimea and that ours have … my father has joined it. It is rumoured the Emperor of the French intends visiting the camp in the Crimea. 21. Began … Parliament will be dissolved, because the Emperor of the French does not like the enquiry of Mr Roebuck's committee on …