Notes and Queries, Volume 95Oxford University Press, 1897 - Electronic journals |
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... mentioned in an agreement dated 1260 , in connexion with William de Brinistun , Robert de Spaunton , and John de Geddinges . Hanley , Staffordshire . A. T. SPANTON . WATERBURY FAMILY . - Will you kindly inform me whether there are now ...
... mentioned in an agreement dated 1260 , in connexion with William de Brinistun , Robert de Spaunton , and John de Geddinges . Hanley , Staffordshire . A. T. SPANTON . WATERBURY FAMILY . - Will you kindly inform me whether there are now ...
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... mention of the removal of the bones . ED . MARSHALL . called " forest cloth . " Urmston . RICHARD LAWSON . Halliwell , in his Dictionary of Provincial Words , ' defines " forest - whites " to be a kind of cloth mentioned in early ...
... mention of the removal of the bones . ED . MARSHALL . called " forest cloth . " Urmston . RICHARD LAWSON . Halliwell , in his Dictionary of Provincial Words , ' defines " forest - whites " to be a kind of cloth mentioned in early ...
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... mentioned it himself . This Kinghorn giving a list of them . My account is borrowed , as is Gaoler , but not ... mention of the instrument . This alarmed C. H. Sanson , and he presented a memoir to the Minister of Justice , in which he ...
... mentioned it himself . This Kinghorn giving a list of them . My account is borrowed , as is Gaoler , but not ... mention of the instrument . This alarmed C. H. Sanson , and he presented a memoir to the Minister of Justice , in which he ...
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... mentioned by M. CHATEAU ( last reference ) . And.according to the same correspondent the knife in Bocchi's engraving has a straight edge , so that Louis XVI . did not originate this ; but probably the edge was horizontal , and not set ...
... mentioned by M. CHATEAU ( last reference ) . And.according to the same correspondent the knife in Bocchi's engraving has a straight edge , so that Louis XVI . did not originate this ; but probably the edge was horizontal , and not set ...
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... mentioned , but it is stated that the eagles were carried by two sergeants , and , as at previous ceremonies of the kind ( see , for instance , Annual Register , ' liv . 123 , for 1812 , giving an account of the ceremony of depositing ...
... mentioned , but it is stated that the eagles were carried by two sergeants , and , as at previous ceremonies of the kind ( see , for instance , Annual Register , ' liv . 123 , for 1812 , giving an account of the ceremony of depositing ...
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