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Survey of London
… Sir Nicholas Bacon played a prominent part in affairs of state. He had married, as his second wife, Ann, the learned … at York House, though several of his letters among the State papers are dated from Charing Cross. In his … for the use of the house, that "My Ladie Puckering hathe a state in it for one yere after her husbands death." e Egerton …
Survey of London
… century. Internally the building is in a very poor state of repair and only the shops, the fronts of which are …
A History of the County of Somerset
… their usual haunts. In many cases this may be the true state of affairs, but I feel confident that closer … that they have all occurred in the county in a wild state, though it is possible that one or two, such as the … to couple together birds which have settled down in a wild state with such species as, for example, the Canada goose, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the Cockchafer ( Melolontha vulgaris, F.) in its beetle state attacks the leaves of most of our common deciduous … our best friends, as both in the winged and in the larval state they destroy enormous quantities of aphides. The … lastnamed is often too abundant in gardens in the larval state menthastri, Esp., is common, but S. urtic is very rare, …