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Survey of London Monograph
… Preface PREFACE. Such historical evidence and local tradition concerning the origin of the Old Palace … decorative workeither of stone or wood carving, panelling, and modelled plaster, in all of which the Palace so richly … given in my labours by the members of the Survey Committee and others. My thanks are due to Mr. H. Hemingway, owner of …
Alumni Oxonienses
… I have myself added has increased so largely their bulk and their value as to justify me in claiming for the result … by my incorporation of the early admission entries and of the names of graduates respectively, which were not … my predecessor. This, however, only represents the initial and, so to speak, mechanical portion of my task. It has been …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… have charitably attempted, notwithstanding the Difficulty and almost contrariety of the Study, to practise upon the … knowing this Place not to be the best chosen for either; and the Times such, that too few are much concerned, either … or Quarentem in Doomsday, wherewith the Pasture or other Woods were measured, and perhaps sometimes Meadow, though …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… of the State; this embraces an abstract of all Letters and Miscellaneous Papers, illustrative of the reign of Henry … Depository, or in the British Museum, the Bodleian and the Lambeth libraries, or the colleges of Oxford and … presentations to livings and pensions, stewardships of forests and manors, distribution of forfeited lands, …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… fabric reared by Wolsey with so much labour, skill, and perseverance, fell to the ground at the death of Lewis … to render France, in effect, the dictator of Europe; and, what in those days was scarcely less important for this … the Emperor withdrew himself into the solitudes of the woods to meditate on the best means of succouring Verona, and …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… crown. He prosecuted this object with greater consistency and firmness than he did most of his schemes, forged by a brain unusually fertile in expedients, and as rapidly abandoned by his easy and fickle temperament. … its sacred knights and Teutonic brotherhoods; its haunted forests and weird mountains; had all combined to captivate …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Preface Preface, Section 2 Meanwhile the French were busy and buzzing like flies in the shambles. Every advantage was eagerly seized by them, and vaunted to the utmost. Their activity, their tenacity, … insinuations, were strikingly contrasted with the rigid and solemn stateliness of their rivals; mortifying to the …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… paper of instructions 1 given by the Duke to his chaplain and chancellor Robert Gilbert, afterwards produced as a witness against him, and upon whose evidence, as well as that of his steward … enjoyed the Duke's confidence. The names of Gilbert and of Charles Knyvet frequently occur in the Duke's …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… West, bishop of Ely, Dokwra, prior of St. John's, and Sir Nicholas Vaux. 1 They reached Dover on 13th November, … a storm, had the misfortune to leave part of their train and their horses behind. On 27th they left for Boulogne, … dogs or falcons, so far as I can remember. Wild men of the woods; savages. Correction from "olyvant." White and green …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… long delay the equilibrium of both might become deranged, and his mediation be rejected or despised. He landed at … of his mission was somehow favorable to the Emperor; and there was not a man throughout the realm of England, from … his conviction that, with the exception of the King and the Cardinal, "all England after cared not and (if) all …