London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and Historical Memorials of London : in Two Volumes, Volume 2Bentley, 1850 - 480 pages |
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... erecting a suitable residence for his successors in the See . Consider- able additions and improvements were made by successive prelates , and more especially by John de Hotham , Bishop of Ely in the reign of Edward the Third , till at ...
... erecting a suitable residence for his successors in the See . Consider- able additions and improvements were made by successive prelates , and more especially by John de Hotham , Bishop of Ely in the reign of Edward the Third , till at ...
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... erected a summer - house on a small mount on the terrace , where it is not improbable that he often meditated and passed his time in literary composi- tion . From the circumstance of Lord Bacon dating his Essays from his " Chamber in ...
... erected a summer - house on a small mount on the terrace , where it is not improbable that he often meditated and passed his time in literary composi- tion . From the circumstance of Lord Bacon dating his Essays from his " Chamber in ...
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... erected into an Inn of Chancery , on condition of paying the annual sum of 31. 6s . 4d . , as an acknowledgment of its dependency on the mother house . In 1771 , it was disposed of by the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn to a private ...
... erected into an Inn of Chancery , on condition of paying the annual sum of 31. 6s . 4d . , as an acknowledgment of its dependency on the mother house . In 1771 , it was disposed of by the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn to a private ...
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... erected on its site . It adds to the interest of the spot , that Sir Thomas More filled for three years the office of Reader in Furnival's Inn . STAPLE INN , dependent on Gray's Inn , on the south side of Holborn , is known to have been ...
... erected on its site . It adds to the interest of the spot , that Sir Thomas More filled for three years the office of Reader in Furnival's Inn . STAPLE INN , dependent on Gray's Inn , on the south side of Holborn , is known to have been ...
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... erecting the high altar of a magnificent Roman Catholic Cathedral , on the very spot in St. George's Fields , where the insane eloquence of Lord George Gordon excited that popular frenzy , which very nearly had the effect of reducing ...
... erecting the high altar of a magnificent Roman Catholic Cathedral , on the very spot in St. George's Fields , where the insane eloquence of Lord George Gordon excited that popular frenzy , which very nearly had the effect of reducing ...
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