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Survey of London
… comedies, Richard Brome's The Weeding of the Covent Garden and Thomas Nabbes's Covent Garden, have the incipient suburb … Puritan who has 'hang'd the head . . . ever since Holiday sports were cried up in the Countrey' (1, 1), and Nabbes's similarly mentions that 'sports' are now tolerated (1, 1). This might well refer to …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… No. 7. 1. The preparations of the hostile fleets of Spain and England in the year 1587; together with an account of … the rest required to make up the thirty-five were ships and pinnaces ( Patache). The fleet that came from Seville to Lisbon was composed of twelve galleys and four galleasses, seventeen great ships, and one belonging …
The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents
… Appendix III Value of imports, 1559/60 and 1565/6 III. VALUE OF IMPORTS IN 1559/60 AND 1565/6 The list of imports is made up from two documents, … 0 0 Bandes for hattes 109 13 4 Hat bands £269 Basketts voc Sports 247 0 0 Batrye 6,078 15 0 £3,600 Bayeburyes 109 4 0 …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… plan, of several of the earlier documents of this year; and as these are intended to supersede the abstracts in the … Of Hungary. Two days ago received hers of the 29th ult., and the documents therewith, concerning chiefly the departure of this King's ambassadors, 1 and the resolution taken upon their charge; upon which, until …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… He has acquitted himself so well that the King and Wolsey have desired to retain him. When any one goes … will please to consider what Francis shall give the herald and other officers of the Order, for they ought to have … do not provide promptly for this matter about the Order, and if he have to borrow, knows well he will wait long to …
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh
… Appendix Abstracts of charters and other documents Abstracts of charters and other documents * The asterisks denote those Charters or … known as Greenside) for performing thereon tournaments, sports and other just warlike deeds, at the pleasure of the …
Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century
… these amendments served only to provide greater detail and in most cases only the final version is given in the … to every alderman of the city of the persons weekly born and buried within the liberties of the city 20s.; to Leonard … to the vergers of St Paul's in reward for opening and shutting the door of St Dunstan's chapel at the repair …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… county. 1 The idea of a life of contemplation, abstinence and devotion as adopted by Nicholas Ferrar, was an outcome of … or direct intercourse with God through meditation and mortification of the body, had had a strong attraction … a hard one for children, they were encouraged in such sports as running, vaulting and archery, to which Thursday …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… I have endured have bred in me certain infirmities, and I have recently been in danger of death, I feel uncertain what fate may befall me by God's will, and wish to give you the present advice in case that event were to occur. And though the everlasting instability and changeable nature …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… the Prelatical Faction, against the morality of that day, and to countenance the prophanation of the same, to the … of like money for every such offence. Recreations and Pastimes. And be it further Ordained, That no person or … third part of the Forfeiture or Penalties. Declaration for Sports to be burnt. And it is further Ordained by the said …