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 1G. Bell, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... brought to bed the 2nd of June before , but the infant died soon after her , the 24th of December . I was therefore sent for home the second time , to celebrate the obsequies of my sister ; who was in- terred in a very honourable manner ...
... brought to bed the 2nd of June before , but the infant died soon after her , the 24th of December . I was therefore sent for home the second time , to celebrate the obsequies of my sister ; who was in- terred in a very honourable manner ...
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... brought out of Germany when the Earl returned from Vienna ( whither he was sent Ambassador - extraordinary , with great pomp and charge , though without any effect , through the artifice of the Jesuited Spaniard , who governed all in ...
... brought out of Germany when the Earl returned from Vienna ( whither he was sent Ambassador - extraordinary , with great pomp and charge , though without any effect , through the artifice of the Jesuited Spaniard , who governed all in ...
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... brought us to Haerlem . About seven in the morning after I came to Amsterdam , where being provided with a lodging , the first thing I went to see was a Synagogue of the Jews ( being Saturday ) , whose cere- monies , ornaments , lamps ...
... brought us to Haerlem . About seven in the morning after I came to Amsterdam , where being provided with a lodging , the first thing I went to see was a Synagogue of the Jews ( being Saturday ) , whose cere- monies , ornaments , lamps ...
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... brought up to housewifery , that men of good worth , who seek that chiefly in a woman , frequently take their wives from this hospital . Thence to the Rasp- house , where the lusty knaves are compelled to work ; and the rasping of ...
... brought up to housewifery , that men of good worth , who seek that chiefly in a woman , frequently take their wives from this hospital . Thence to the Rasp- house , where the lusty knaves are compelled to work ; and the rasping of ...
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... brought her divers times to trouble . Haerlem is a very delicate town , and hath one of the fairest churches of the Gothic design I had ever seen . There hang in the steeple , which is very high , two silver bells , said to have been ...
... brought her divers times to trouble . Haerlem is a very delicate town , and hath one of the fairest churches of the Gothic design I had ever seen . There hang in the steeple , which is very high , two silver bells , said to have been ...
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