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A History of the County of Somerset
… dry islands surrounded by fresh water marsh and brackish reed swamp punctuated with open pools. Areas of alder carr succeeded reed swamp but increasing rainfall encouraged plants to form … who held adjoining land at the end of the 13th century. 3 Reed beds at Meare Pool in the mid 13th century 4 may suggest …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… the other manuscripts, six belong to the time of William Reed, bishop from 1368 to 1385. Liber A was the first of a … contains references to material in Liber A. The biggest of Reed's cartularies is Liber E, from which a large section … ascribing its compilation to the order of bishop Reed, 95 probably belongs to the same sequence of books: …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)
… concerned ; the archduke Mathias had turned out a broken reed, and, as the only means of saving his cause, Orange …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… some extraordinary event." They would prove a broken reed, if tampered with by an enemy who designed an invasion …
Survey of London
… latterly as a metal engineering firm; and Thwaites & Reed, specialists in turret clocks, who after more than a …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… insincerity, and the folly of relying on such a broken reed. 89 He knew well that when Charles proposed an invasion …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… everything for the King;and the King was no better than a reed, ready to pierce the hand of those who presumed too much …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… deposit was confined to the surface of the gravel or to a reed-layer 1 ft. thick, both levels being overlaid by the …
Survey of London Monograph
… on beautifying the interior. She abolished the plaited reed-mats, which till then had covered the richest English …