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Memorials of Old Chelsea: A New History of the Village of Palaces - Page 272
by Alfred Beaver - 1892 - 428 pages
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An Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea, and Its ..., Volume 1

Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1829 - 444 pages
...value of 20,000/, for the reliefe and reception of four companies, viz. 400 men, ta be as in a colledge or monastery. I was, therefore, desired by Sir Stephen (who had not onely the whole managing of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as well...
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Chelsea Hospital and Its Traditions

George Robert Gleig - Hospitals - 1838 - 972 pages
...pounds, for the relief and reception of four companies, viz. four hundred men, to be as a colledge or monastery. I was therefore desired by Sir Stephen (who had not only the whole management of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as well it became him...
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The Saturday Magazine ...

1842 - 1008 pages
...build to the value of 20,000/., for the relief and reception of four companies, viz., 400 men, to be as a college or monastery. I was therefore desired by Sir Stephen (who bad not only the whole management of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor,...
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Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, Volume 2

John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 pages
...on it, and build to the value of £20,000, for the relief and reception of four companies, viz. 400 men, to be as in a college, or monastery. I was therefore...of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as well it became him who had gotten so vast an estate by the soldiers) to assist...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 902 pages
...it, and build to the value of £20,000, for the relief and reception of four companies, namely 400 men, to be as in a college or monastery. I was, therefore,...of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as well it became him who had gotten so vast an estate by the soldiers*) to assist...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...it, and build to the value of £20,000, for the relief and reception of four companies, namely 400 men, to be as in a college or monastery. I was, therefore,...of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as well it became him who had gotten so vast an estate by the soldiers*) to assist...
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Our home islands [by T. Milner, Volume 3

Thomas Milner - 1857 - 332 pages
...acquainted me again with his majesty's resolution of proceeding in the erection of a royal hospital for the relief and reception of four companies, namely,...monastery. I was therefore desired by sir Stephen to assist him, and consult what method to cast it in, as to the government. So in his study we set...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 600 pages
...After recapitulating the heads of the plan as communicated by Sir Stephen, Evelyn sets down : — ' I was therefore desired by Sir Stephen (who had not...of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as n-ill it became him who had gotten so vast an estate by the soldiers) to assist...
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The Living Age, Volume 119

1873 - 892 pages
...king. After recapitulating the heads of the plan as communicated by Sir Stephen, Evelyn sets down : — I was therefore desired by Sir Stephen (who had not...of this, but was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as -Mill it became him who had gotten so vasi an estate by the soldiers') to assist...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 596 pages
...After recapitulating the heads of the plan as communicated by Sir Stephen, Evelyn sets down : — ' I was therefore desired by Sir Stephen (who had not only the whole managing of this, hut was, as I perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as well it became him who had gotten so...
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