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Survey of London
… "the best skill in ancient hands and manuscripts of any man, not only of this but of any former age." 119 Wanley's …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… a book open before him, and on each side are two armed knights finely sculptured, with various emblematical devices. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… as is generally thought, to the ancient order of Knights Templars; but its primitive history is involved in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and there were also a Dominican convent, and a house of Knights Templars. Dunwich gives the title of Viscount to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… inscription only; on same slab, (2) small figures of a man and woman, of c. 1420, over each figure contemporary …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… house, and put them all to the sword, except one man, who was wounded, and made his escape. In revenge for … him on a northern expedition. In 1404, two peers and two knights were executed here for engaging in a conspiracy … to enable the county palatine and city of Durham to send knights and burgesses to parliament, the first elections …
A History of the County of Durham
… in it all the whole storye life and miracles of that holy man St. Cuthbert from his birth of his natiuitie and infancie … which contain grotesque beasts and human figures, one a man riding a lion. The capitals of all the shafts are carved … figures embracing, a fourth a boy being whipped, a fifth a man strangling another with a rope; two others have each a …