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A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1818 that hardly any adult in the parish was unable to read. 63 The boys' day school attended by 60 pupils in 1847 … based on the 1291 taxation suggests that the figure should read 46 13 s. 4 d.: Dugdale, Mon. i. 93. B.L. Add. MS. 39348, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 20 May, 1647, superior reader of the Linacre lecture, but read not; a member of Gray's Inn 1644, fellow college of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… lioncels all counter-changed. The surrounding legend read: Sigillum Maioris Et Burgen sium De Westburie The ivory …
Old and New London
… in Pepys' diary, where, under date of March 23, 16678, we read:"To Westminster Abbey, and there did see all the tombs … respect to its preservation, the most perfect example. We read that in the year 1502 Henry VII. took down the old and … of Elizabeth, and her less fortunate sister. On them we read as follows: REGNO CONSORTES ET VRNA HIT OBDORMIMUS …
Old and New London
… description of the building in a volume of papers read by Sir G. G. Scott at the London Congress of the … "Domesday Book," so familiar to every child who has read the history of our Saxon and Norman kings. "Though above … obtain the precedence in wonderful size and tone." We also read that "in the monasterye of Westminster ther was a fayr …
Old and New London
… or one to whom he gave authority, sat with the guests and read to them a portion of Scripture. The abbot sat at table …
Old and New London
… Pepys was at the Abbey, and tells us that he "heard them read the Church Service," though "very ridiculously." And … more ceremonies, as taking the oath, and having things read to him by the bishopp; and his lords (who put on their … he should come and speak. And a general pardon was also read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down …