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Survey of London
… of King Charles I's Collection of Pictures, etc., ed. H. Walpole.) P.R.O., Works, 5/17. P.R.O., E. 351/3285. "It is … vj foote square to be seene from the privy Lodgings." Walpole ( Anecdotes of Painting, 1888 edn., II, p. 16) quotes … and fronting westward the Privy Garden." (Note in H. Walpole's edition of Description of the King's Collection of …
Survey of London
… by Vanderdoort himself) has been edited by Horace Walpole. John De Critz, sergeant painter, was kept busily …
Old and New London
… us to attempt a rival account. Whitehall was, however, as Walpole tells us, "the most polite court in Europe;" and if … in the reign of James I. "These pieces," says Horace Walpole, "were sometimes composed at the command of the king …
Old and New London
… II. had made a partial "restoration" at Whitehall. Horace Walpole, in his "Anecdotes of Painting," mentions, as a mark …
Old and New London
… his head with a buttoned cap of the country fashion," as Walpole tells us in his "Miscellaneous Antiquities." Sir … the design of Inigo Jones was never completed; yet Horace Walpole, an incomparable critic on all writings, characters, … Pall Mall. "The intended Palace at Whitehall," says Horace Walpole, if it had been carried out, would have been the most …
Old and New London
… had such distinguished residents and tenants. Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of illustrious memory, made it … anecdotes of its former occupants abound. When Sir Robert Walpole removed from his official residence here, he found an … many eighteenpences for dinners, five shillings to 'Bob' Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, and one memorandum of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Finished diagrams, planed blocks etc, began part of Horace Walpole's library at Strawberry Hill. Exceedingly fine. There … 9. Mended blocks, went errands, cut up wood, went on with Walpole's library etc. 826 persons perished by the founding … 14. Went errands, also to Brown and Co's, on with Walpole's library etc. 15. Went to Brown and Co's, twice to …
Statutes of the Realm
… Sir Cerill Wich Rich: Perry of Kirby Thomas Knivet Robert Walpole John Harbord Edmond Woodhouse John Warkhouse John …
Statutes of the Realm
… O. Brinnett O. Hobart O. Bickley O. Guibon O. Calthorp O. Walpole O. Percy O. Repps O. Britiffe O. Herne O. Thruston O. …
William and Mary, 1694: An Act for granting to his Majestie an Aide of Four shillings in the Pound for One Yeare and for applying the yearely summe of [£300,000] for Five yeares out of the Dutyes of Tunnage and Poundage and other summes of money payable upon Merchandizes exported and imported for carrying on the Warr against France with vigour [Chapter III Rot. Parl. pt. 2.]
Statutes of the Realm
… [Waller 2] Bacon Nicholas Helwise Cleere Garnise Horatio Walpole John Ward James Tenant Edward Earle Robert Fisk …