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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… names and heraldic honours of the knights emblazoned; the curtains and cushions are of blue velvet with gold fringe, …
Survey of London
… had been rebuilt with old stones it would be difficult to say. It seems strange that so small a portion of stone wall … thou clapped in the Flete or Clinke, Then nought must thou say, whatsoeuer thou thinke." Stow speaks of it as having …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… members also. The 16th-century ordinances have much to say of the freemen. In 1514 it was ordained in the inn of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… great tower crowning the mount, together with the stepped curtains connecting the great tower with the bailey walls. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… so, and that he would bring his castle thither; that is to say, enlarge it so far with two other wards, 'the charge … furred with ermine, testers of shining cloth of gold and curtains of white sarcenet, their baths, in which they … the king granted him and 'most gentlie heard all he had to say.' After hearing Hoby's report the council wrote strongly …