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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... appointment to a public office was in 1662 , as a Commissioner for reforming the buildings , ways , streets , and incumbrances , and regulating hackney - coaches in London . In the same year , he sat as a Commissioner INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... appointment to a public office was in 1662 , as a Commissioner for reforming the buildings , ways , streets , and incumbrances , and regulating hackney - coaches in London . In the same year , he sat as a Commissioner INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
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... building . He was also appointed Treasurer , with a salary of 2001. a year ; but he says that it was a long time before he received any part of it . When the Czar of Muscovy came to England , in 1698 , proposing to instruct himself in ...
... building . He was also appointed Treasurer , with a salary of 2001. a year ; but he says that it was a long time before he received any part of it . When the Czar of Muscovy came to England , in 1698 , proposing to instruct himself in ...
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... building of Greenwich Hospital , were much better adapted to his inclinations and pursuits . As a Commissioner of the Privy Seal in the reign of King James II . , he had a difficult task to perform . He was most steadily attached to the ...
... building of Greenwich Hospital , were much better adapted to his inclinations and pursuits . As a Commissioner of the Privy Seal in the reign of King James II . , he had a difficult task to perform . He was most steadily attached to the ...
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... building whereof was chiefly procured by my grandfather , who having the impropriation , gave 201. a - year out of it to this church . I afterwards sold the impropriation . I laid one of the first stones at the building of the church ...
... building whereof was chiefly procured by my grandfather , who having the impropriation , gave 201. a - year out of it to this church . I afterwards sold the impropriation . I laid one of the first stones at the building of the church ...
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... building , to this day practised . But what is to be deplored as to this vessel is , that it cost his Majesty the affections of his subjects , perverted by the malcontent great ones , who took occasion to quarrel for his having raised a ...
... building , to this day practised . But what is to be deplored as to this vessel is , that it cost his Majesty the affections of his subjects , perverted by the malcontent great ones , who took occasion to quarrel for his having raised a ...
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