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... tower , the top of which , instead of pinnacles , a spire , or turrets , is crowned with arches , sup- ported by Corinthian columns . * Expressing , that as by the Levitical law the priest was to have the skin of the lamb offered ; so ...
... tower , the top of which , instead of pinnacles , a spire , or turrets , is crowned with arches , sup- ported by Corinthian columns . * Expressing , that as by the Levitical law the priest was to have the skin of the lamb offered ; so ...
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... tower is about ninety feet : it is of stone , and the roof of the church covered with lead . Among the MONUMENTS mentioned by Stow were the following : J. Wilford , Merchant Taylor , alderman , 1544 ; Sir James Wilford , anno 1550 ; and ...
... tower is about ninety feet : it is of stone , and the roof of the church covered with lead . Among the MONUMENTS mentioned by Stow were the following : J. Wilford , Merchant Taylor , alderman , 1544 ; Sir James Wilford , anno 1550 ; and ...
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... Tower Hill ; Beech Lane ; Mr. Lam- bard's , at Greenwich ( he was a member of the company ) ; Stratford le Bow ; Shoreditch ; St. George's Fields ; St. Mary Newington ; Mile End ; and Bancroft's , near Stratford le Bow . HOSPITAL at ...
... Tower Hill ; Beech Lane ; Mr. Lam- bard's , at Greenwich ( he was a member of the company ) ; Stratford le Bow ; Shoreditch ; St. George's Fields ; St. Mary Newington ; Mile End ; and Bancroft's , near Stratford le Bow . HOSPITAL at ...
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... Tower Hill . John Vere earl of Oxford , a firm ad- herent to the house of Lancaster , beheaded by Edward IV . in 1463 , at the same place , with his son and several others . Numbers of the barons who fell in the battle of Barnet , were ...
... Tower Hill . John Vere earl of Oxford , a firm ad- herent to the house of Lancaster , beheaded by Edward IV . in 1463 , at the same place , with his son and several others . Numbers of the barons who fell in the battle of Barnet , were ...
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... Tower Hill , May 17 , 1521 , So that Wolsey succeeded too fatally in sitting upon his skirt . Mullions are the short upright posts that divide the several lights in window frames . ALHALLOWS , ALHALLOWS , LONDON WALL . THE space ...
... Tower Hill , May 17 , 1521 , So that Wolsey succeeded too fatally in sitting upon his skirt . Mullions are the short upright posts that divide the several lights in window frames . ALHALLOWS , ALHALLOWS , LONDON WALL . THE space ...
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Page 230 - God save him ! " No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
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Page 13 - ... that their master Sir Thomas commanded them so to do; no man durst go to argue the matter, but each man lost his land, and my father paid his whole rent, which was 6s. 6d. the year, for that half which was left. Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men causeth them in some matters to forget themselves.
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Page 61 - Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall, For very want; he could not build a wall.
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Page 378 - ... then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah. and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.
Page 449 - Dobbes, alderman and knight, thou in thy year didst win my heart for evermore, for that honourable act, that most blessed work of God, of the erection and setting up of Christ's holy hospitals and truly religious houses, which by thee and through thee were begun...
Page 228 - Turk's good successes against Christians, and wish he were in the midst of Rome ? Who would have dreamt ten years since, when Archbishop Laud did ride in state through London streets accompanying my Lord of London to be sworn Lord High Treasurer of England, that the mitre should have now come to such a scorn, to such a national kind of hatred, as to put the whole island in a combustion...