Hampton Court: A Short History of the Royal Manor and Palace |
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... received £ 20 . For a century and a half after this , the manor remained in the possession of the family of De Valery or De St. Valery . From their hands it passed into those of Henry de St. Albans , who about the year 1217 gave it ...
... received £ 20 . For a century and a half after this , the manor remained in the possession of the family of De Valery or De St. Valery . From their hands it passed into those of Henry de St. Albans , who about the year 1217 gave it ...
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... receiving enormous revenues . Besides his office of Grand Almoner , he had been appointed within a year to three several bishoprics - that of Lincoln , that of Tournay in France , and the archbishopric of York ; and in quick suc ...
... receiving enormous revenues . Besides his office of Grand Almoner , he had been appointed within a year to three several bishoprics - that of Lincoln , that of Tournay in France , and the archbishopric of York ; and in quick suc ...
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... receiving foreign ambassadors , reading despatches , writing instructions to his agents abroad , and retaining in his mind the whole complex thread of continental politics , we find him superintending the most minute details in regard ...
... receiving foreign ambassadors , reading despatches , writing instructions to his agents abroad , and retaining in his mind the whole complex thread of continental politics , we find him superintending the most minute details in regard ...
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... pur- sued him into his country retreat , and then complained that they were received with impatient curtness . Even the WOLSEY ENTERTAINS THE AMBASSADORS . 15 Venetian ambassador could not 14 A SHORT HISTORY OF HAMPTON COURT .
... pur- sued him into his country retreat , and then complained that they were received with impatient curtness . Even the WOLSEY ENTERTAINS THE AMBASSADORS . 15 Venetian ambassador could not 14 A SHORT HISTORY OF HAMPTON COURT .
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... received by him . " I have been several times , " relates Giustinian , " to the right reverend Cardinal , but could never obtain audience ; true is it that he was always occupied either with the ambas- sadors aforesaid ( of Spain ) or ...
... received by him . " I have been several times , " relates Giustinian , " to the right reverend Cardinal , but could never obtain audience ; true is it that he was always occupied either with the ambas- sadors aforesaid ( of Spain ) or ...
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