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The Journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
… &c. p. 645. How numerous in 43 Eliz. p. 648. 650. A witty Speech of Secretary Cecil's intimating the Queens …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… stem, London 1638; cover-paten, inscribed as gift of Ralph Witty, rector, early 18th-century. Pulpit (Plate 61): oak, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… given, after a cup and paten were stolen in 1698, by Ralph Witty, rector 1689-1717. 9 An organ replaced a harmonium in …
Survey of London
… nice mews houses (Plate 51a), for instance Ernest Cole's witty No. 25 (1929). Having proved that an admirer of … Malacrida (with White Allom) put in for Samuel Courtauld a witty semi-circular bathroom of temple form (Plate 53d). If …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… bright parts and excellent wit, was usually styled, The witty earl of Rochester. He died in 1682, leaving three …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… sent to their rescue, "he being more acquainted with the witty than the warlike part of Pallas, (as compleat in … stout and valiant, and in wary avoiding of dangers, witty and careful, so that he performed the faith he owed to …
Old and New London
… years old. Speaking of Tothill Fields Prison, the witty author of the "Town Spy," published in 1725, quaintly …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… otherwise you destroy all you have done. (It was a pretty, witty speech, but I have wronged him in it.) Colonel White. I …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… (1732,) p. 673. Serjeant Maynard, remembered for a witty reply in his old age to King William, which Bishop …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… you say he is not that way. Then he is no way. That was a witty motion by Mr. Hungerford 68. I will not suppose such … are willing to settle; that settles it not. There was a witty fulmitiation from the corner, but no proof. (I think he …