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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… particulars. The discreditable nonsense was uttered in a wild drunken frolic, among young men, Gill's college friends, … back on "Kinmont Willie" and "Johnie Armstrong," on the wild doings and stirring minstrelsy of the Border, by a …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… to be planted on our own stock, the root being grown a wild tree. I conclude; all wisdom, policy, safety, is … was an island or a continent, nor how many leagues of a wild tempestuous ocean ran between it and Newfoundland, which …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… to be put in execution. From Bedfordshire, in May, came a wild story, which, however, Lord Sandwich thought important … of his father and grandfather it was stocked with deer and wild cows. 218 Orders were also given for repairing Stirling …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… tar decanted on your pate, with the feathers of a dozen wild geese laid over that to enliven your appearance? Only … all, Captain Ayres, let us advise you to fly without the wild geese feathers. Destruction of the tea at Boston. On the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Papists. The popular prejudices against them gave rise to wild charges, as that the Papists were the underhand actors …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… of former times built a fort in this place, by which that wild and rebellious country was kept in awe by a small …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… in Durham. At the conclusion of the Nicene Creed, a wild uproar was raised, apparently in view of an intended …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… needed, the whole bulk of the people being so unquiet and wild in their fancies. Nothing else could give heart to his …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and there was a similar complaint among poultry and wild fowl, rendering them unfit for food (p. 187). John …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Newmarket (p. 19) and Portsmouth. In December there was a wild rumour in Kent that he had quarrelled with the King and …