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Finance and trade under Edward III
… societies in France, the price of their release being huge loans to Philip of Valois 1 But what was still worse, … dated 15 October, 1337, which seems to prove that the huge sum of £35,000 was actually paid from the King's … By far the most remarkable of these grants are the two huge gifts of 28 June, 1339, £30,000 to the Bardi, and …
Old and New London
… his reason, and, in a fit of excitement, he seized a huge ledger, which he aimed and hurled at the mustachioed …
Old and New London
… and upon that wall of marble was presently lett downe a huge black marble stone of great thicknesse, with this …
Old and New London
… The loving cups used on certain grand occasions are huge silver goblets, which are passed down the table, filled …
Survey of London
… 3 feet 6 inches, but above this the shell was framed with huge timbers, the side walls being divided into bays some 15 …
Old and New London
… arching through the roofs look like the paddle-boxes of huge steamers. Along the quay you see, now men with their … then you are nearly sickened with the stench of hides and huge bins of horns; and shortly afterwards the atmosphere is … Under this roof is piled a vast mass of tobacco in huge casks, in double tiersthat is, two casks in height. This …
Old and New London
… a survey of the stores, and in it enumerates Brandon's huge lance, the Spanish collar of torture, and the ancient … figures of two furies holding torches, and grasping a huge snake. The centre of the wheel represents the sun, the … (yeoman-porter), clothed in a long red cloak, bearing a huge bunch of keys, and attended by a brother warder carrying …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Above the projecting porch can be seen one of the huge lunette windows that light the nave. The north and south …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to be the transformation of Cambridge into a copy of the huge American "State University"the triumph of practical …
Old and New London
… Somerset House, all marked and scarred by water, and with huge mooring rings projecting from the masonry, but now quite … of waste ground on either side, and escape from the huge unhealthy mud-banks that disfigure the river about …