Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.: To which is Subjoined the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne, Volume 2G. Bell, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... took an exact view of the plaster statues and bass - relievos inserted betwixt the timbers and puncheons of the outside walls of the Court ; which must needs have been the work of some celebrated Italian . I much admired how they had ...
... took an exact view of the plaster statues and bass - relievos inserted betwixt the timbers and puncheons of the outside walls of the Court ; which must needs have been the work of some celebrated Italian . I much admired how they had ...
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... took order for the repairs . 22nd May . Waited on my Lord Chancellor at his new palace ; and Lord Berkeley's built next to it . 24th . Dined with Lord Cornbury , now made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen ; who kept a very honourable table ...
... took order for the repairs . 22nd May . Waited on my Lord Chancellor at his new palace ; and Lord Berkeley's built next to it . 24th . Dined with Lord Cornbury , now made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen ; who kept a very honourable table ...
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... took coach with my wife and son , and went to the Bankside in Southwark , where we beheld that dismal spectacle , the whole city in dreadful flames near the water- side ; all the houses from the Bridge , all Thames street , and upwards ...
... took coach with my wife and son , and went to the Bankside in Southwark , where we beheld that dismal spectacle , the whole city in dreadful flames near the water- side ; all the houses from the Bridge , all Thames street , and upwards ...
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... took their several posts , some at one part , and some at another ( for now they began to bestir themselves , and not till now , who hitherto had stood as men intoxicated , with their hands across ) , and began to consider that nothing ...
... took their several posts , some at one part , and some at another ( for now they began to bestir themselves , and not till now , who hitherto had stood as men intoxicated , with their hands across ) , and began to consider that nothing ...
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... took all imaginable care for their relief , by pro- clamation for the country to come in , and refresh them with provisions , In the midst of all this calamity and confusion , there was , I know not how , an alarm begun that the French ...
... took all imaginable care for their relief , by pro- clamation for the country to come in , and refresh them with provisions , In the midst of all this calamity and confusion , there was , I know not how , an alarm begun that the French ...
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