The Mirrour of Majestie, Or, The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned: A Photo-lith Fac-simile Reprint from Mr. Corser's Perfect Copy. A.D. 1618

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Holbein society, 1870 - Emblems - 180 pages
 

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Page 121 - Walsingham. was advanced to the dignity of a baron of the realm, by the title of Lord Armine, of Armine, in the county of Nottingham.
Page 98 - Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Page 152 - June, 1605, was created a peer of the realm, by the title of Baron Carew of Clopton, in the county of Warwick. In 1608 he was appointed Master-General of...
Page 135 - There was no small loss that night of chaines and jewels, and many great ladies were made shorter by the skirts, and were very well served, that they could keep cut no better.
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Page 163 - Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the public collections of the country, with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of their Lives and Actions.
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Page 73 - Mayster Thomas More in his youth devysed in hys fathers house in London, a goodly hangyng of fyne paynted clothe, with nyne pageauntes, and verses over of every of those pageauntes : which verses expressed and declared, what the ymages in those pageauntes represented : and also in those pageauntes were paynted, the thynges that the verses over them dyd (in effecte) declare, whiche verses here folowe.
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