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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… bound with velvet and furred, a velvet coat and doublet, a marble cloth coat guarded with velvet, and another of green …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… Copley to Lord Burghley. As soft water may in time pierce marble, I hope my often suits will in time pierce my hardest …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… being ended, his Grace was inducted in like manner to the marble chair, which tradition saith was St. Augustine's chair …
The Environs of London
… corner of the chancel, is an altar tomb, of Purbeck marble, on which are brass plates with figures of a man and … the north wall, is a large monument, composed partly of marble, and partly of alabaster; erected by Sir Oliph Leigh, … Henry Guy. Near the communion table, on a slab of Purbeck marble, is a brass figure of a man in armour; and underneath …
Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… 2ninth hour of the day the same porters brought a slab of marble, which had been sent to the woman's husband by the … it would last, and that after it was wholly consumed, the marble slab must be substituted in its place. A certain … log of wood signifies your husband, and the slab of marble the son who shall be born of you. The circumstance …
Survey of London
… and other famous artists. The mantelpieces were carved in marble or wood. It has been found impossible to describe or … The rooms contained fine Adam mantelpieces in white marble on which we used to sketch caricatures in pencil." 319 …
Survey of London
… with Captain Flinders in his expedition of 1801. The marble mantelpieces to the principal rooms are rather ornate, … courtyard (see Plate 62). The mantelpiece is in grey marble, with a portrait over (in a carved frame of martial … and pediments. The mantelpiece, which is in statuary marble, has a carved centre tablet to the frieze between …
Journal of the House of Lords
… and Commissariat 769 95 1,246 2,481 1,335 1,266 Slabs of Marble consigned to Bengal for the Use of St. Peter's Church …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… John Houghton found that alabaster along with white rock MARBLE and lime calcinated flints were used to help the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… octagonal pillars, resting upon circular bases of Sussex marble, supposed to have been removed from a Roman temple … in a sitting posture, is beautifully represented in white marble. Two chantries were formerly existing in the church; …