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... where the church , so called from its containing a facsimile of the Holy
Sepulchre , is still shown , and the legend told of the citizen whose ' journeys to
the Holy Land enabled him to complete it . · The truth appears to be , that Evelyn '
s Diary ...
... where the church , so called from its containing a facsimile of the Holy
Sepulchre , is still shown , and the legend told of the citizen whose ' journeys to
the Holy Land enabled him to complete it . · The truth appears to be , that Evelyn '
s Diary ...
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... in a place called Yaverland ; but we returned the following day to Chichester ,
where , having viewed the city and fair cathedral , we returned home . About the
beginning of September , I was so afflicted with a quartan ague , that I could by
no ...
... in a place called Yaverland ; but we returned the following day to Chichester ,
where , having viewed the city and fair cathedral , we returned home . About the
beginning of September , I was so afflicted with a quartan ague , that I could by
no ...
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We sailed also by an exceeding strong fort called Lovestein , famous for the
escape of the learned Hugo Grotius , who , being in durance as a capital offender
, as was the unhappy Barneveldt , by the stratagem of his lady , was conveyed in
a ...
We sailed also by an exceeding strong fort called Lovestein , famous for the
escape of the learned Hugo Grotius , who , being in durance as a capital offender
, as was the unhappy Barneveldt , by the stratagem of his lady , was conveyed in
a ...
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From thence , I went to a place without the town , called Overkirk , where they
have a spacious field assigned them to bury their dead , full of sepulchres with
Hebraic inscriptions , some of them stately and costly . Looking through one of
these ...
From thence , I went to a place without the town , called Overkirk , where they
have a spacious field assigned them to bury their dead , full of sepulchres with
Hebraic inscriptions , some of them stately and costly . Looking through one of
these ...
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1 The next day , we were entertained at a kind of tavern , called the Briloft ,
appertaining to a rich Anabaptist , where , in the upper rooms of the house , were
divers pretty waterworks , rising 108 feet from the ground . Here were many
quaint ...
1 The next day , we were entertained at a kind of tavern , called the Briloft ,
appertaining to a rich Anabaptist , where , in the upper rooms of the house , were
divers pretty waterworks , rising 108 feet from the ground . Here were many
quaint ...
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| Title | 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 1 Bohn's historical library 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, William Bray |
| Author | John Evelyn |
| Editor | William Bray |
| Publisher | G. Bell, 1889 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Apr 2008 |
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