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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… summer of 1636, so severe that at the end of August the trees were as bare as in mid-winter. This made the lot of the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… death. In the country the roads were blocked with fallen trees and many lives were lost. In London the royal palace …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… informed Alessandro Farnese that the destruction of his trees caused him more pain than he ever could have believed … sensual ( assai sensuale) in his passion for gardens and trees, his grief was also caused by that which he thought … must be felt by Cardinal Farnese, and because those trees seemed to him to embellish the whole of Rome. 41In the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… says this Gentleman of Taste, will be obtained by adding Trees upon the Fore-Ground, if happily introduced." "The … and Forest, afford an infinite Variety of Character in its Trees, and endless Foliage." 2 "'Tis Painting's first chief …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… produce we obtain the following memoranda:apple and pear trees, 6 d. each; damson, 2 d., rose trees, 4 d., the 100; 2lbs. of leek seed, 12 d.; 2lbs. of parsley seed, 4 d.; 3 service trees, 7 d.; 3lbs. of anetts (anise) seed, 5 s. 6 d.; for …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… the leaves were made of, and for covering the rocks. 6 fir trees. 4 masts for enclosing the hall door. 1 lb. of Spanish …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… his great guns were disabled by the fracture of their axle-trees. On the 1st of November he laid siege to Wark Castle. …