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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 296 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Wily, and bounded on the north by the Downs; and comprises …
Old and New London
… Sir John parted with the new City mansion to that dark and wily intriguer, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. "There," says … sisters. Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's astute and wily secretary, afterwards inhabited the house. Old Broad …
Old and New London
… in which the Duke of Buckingham offered the crown to his wily confederate, Richard the Crookback. In Queen Elizabeth's …
Old and New London
… kind interference effected a reconciliation. The wily queen, watching her opportunity, requested the knight to …
Calendar, Committee for Compounding
… and Padworth parishes, Berks, and Steeple Langford and Wily, Wilts, beg examination of their claim to 7 quarters of …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… most constant against the subtlest charms of the most wily Jesuit. The grounds of this my persuasion I have more …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… himself I do refer it, etc. For the worthiness of Barty's wily wit, his singular subtle shifts, his fine faith and …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… him by the next post within his letter to Newark the wily fox's complaint, Antho. Fitzherbert.Summerby, 11 June, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… was likewise in disgrace for the same, but that he very wily laid all upon London. This went for one week currently. …