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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies

… as Dunbar said, they might be "compared to the late Jona. Wild of London, who neither robbed nor stole himself, but was …

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Survey of London

… any estate in Pancras held under this Prebend." Various wild guesses were afterwards made by different writers until …

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Calendar of Treasury Books

… influence of his momentary solvency Charles gave way to a wild outburst of extravagance in the matter of his secret …

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain

… de Rojas, the young widow seems to have led rather a wild life, for on the 6th of January 1538 the Emperor wrote …

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Calendar of Treasury Books

… would have evolved it, that brain which had conceived the wild scheme of the Land Bank in 1696 and which was soon to …

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain: Supplement to Volumes 1 and 2

… the souls of her father and of her husband. But these wild fancies were not unfrequently interrupted by periods of …

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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

… be adduced. At Flushing, at the close of the year 1595, wild reports with regard to her death were spread from … to try the fleetness and the courage of these dogs on the wild boar, and to put their reputation to the test. And if …

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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

… all their apparel worn out, the bareness whereof in this wild, cold, and wasted country being a principal cause of …

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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

… a base clown, of a cowardly disposition, dwelling amongst wild mountains, but daring to sting with his tongue the …

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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

… invasion of the Palatinate itself by Spanish forces. For a wild moment James thought in terms of a military expedition …