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The Aldermen of the City of London
… of Imports to the Navigation and Commerce of this Country.' 1774. George Hayley. Brother-in-law of John Wilkes. … the resolution in Congress for separation from the mother country. He returned to Virginia and died there. 1775. Hugh … share of happiness, which is to be acquired in this venal country, in privacy and retirement, where I am sure it is …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… taken prisoner at Dunbar in 1549, by a Gascoigne of the country of Basque called Pellicque, "that won no smal …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… to be near 4000 horse, which were enough to eat up the country, for there was little meadow or hay all the way as I … the privy council, for the control of the markets in the country at large, or in such places as they chose to extend …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… importing that the lady Mary was proclaimed in every country 'Queen of England, France, and Ireland,' (being an …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… arose the special observance of his obsequies in this country. They are briefly noticed by Holinshed, p. 1768; but …
A Survey of London
… The Pleasant walks of Moore Fields: a dialogue between a Country Gentleman and a Citizen, 1607. This well was neare … used of a town-carriage as distinguished from 'coach', a country-carriage. Stow himself in the Summary Abridged (p. …
A Survey of London
… In Samuel Rowlands' Humors Looking Glasse, p. 29, the country fool goes to see: The Bosse at Billingsgate, and …
Old and New London
… called 'Knotting-barns,' in Stockdale's new map of the country round London, 1790; 'Knolton Barn,' now … William and Anne to the close of the last century. Their 'country air,' as it was called, seems to have been preferred, … to be embosomed in the most sequestered parts of the country, for nothing is heard to interrupt the course of his …