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... died in Pall Mall , London , 28 Dec. 1697 , and was buried under the communion - table in St. James's Church . She was of an estimable character and very amiable manners , and had among her contemporaries some reputation as a poet . Dr ...
... died in Pall Mall , London , 28 Dec. 1697 , and was buried under the communion - table in St. James's Church . She was of an estimable character and very amiable manners , and had among her contemporaries some reputation as a poet . Dr ...
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... died some few hours after he had performed that last office . He was very solicitous in his last sickness lest his body should fall into the hands of the inquisitors , for the prevention whereof this expedient was made use of , that the ...
... died some few hours after he had performed that last office . He was very solicitous in his last sickness lest his body should fall into the hands of the inquisitors , for the prevention whereof this expedient was made use of , that the ...
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... died on 17 Oct. 1761 . [ Gent . Mag . xxxi . 538 ; Nichols's Lit. Anecd . i . 650 ; Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesię Anglicana , ii . 202. In the Rawlinson MSS . fol . 16152 ( Bodleian Libr . ) , where a brief account appears , the date of ...
... died on 17 Oct. 1761 . [ Gent . Mag . xxxi . 538 ; Nichols's Lit. Anecd . i . 650 ; Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesię Anglicana , ii . 202. In the Rawlinson MSS . fol . 16152 ( Bodleian Libr . ) , where a brief account appears , the date of ...
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... died in 1767 , after having brought together a rich treasure of early - printed books , old poetry , original letters , and autographs . The library remained unexamined for forty years , when it came into Beatniffe's hands at the ...
... died in 1767 , after having brought together a rich treasure of early - printed books , old poetry , original letters , and autographs . The library remained unexamined for forty years , when it came into Beatniffe's hands at the ...
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... died at the stake in St. Andrews in 1528. His death proved even more persuasive than his living words , inso- much that a shrewd observer counselled the archbishop to burn the next heretics in the cellar , for the smoke of Mr. Patrick ...
... died at the stake in St. Andrews in 1528. His death proved even more persuasive than his living words , inso- much that a shrewd observer counselled the archbishop to burn the next heretics in the cellar , for the smoke of Mr. Patrick ...
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