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 |
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... 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.
... 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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... coach and six horses , which carried me from Brussels to Ghent , where it was to meet my Lord of Arundel , Earl Marshal of England , who had requested me when I was at Antwerp to send it for him , if I went not thither myself . Thus ...
... coach and six horses , which carried me from Brussels to Ghent , where it was to meet my Lord of Arundel , Earl Marshal of England , who had requested me when I was at Antwerp to send it for him , if I went not thither myself . Thus ...
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... coach and six horses , at the palace of Monsieur de Bassompière , where I saw that gallant person , his gardens ... coaches , and two for foot- passengers three or four feet higher , and of convenient breadth for eight or ten to go a ...
... coach and six horses , at the palace of Monsieur de Bassompière , where I saw that gallant person , his gardens ... coaches , and two for foot- passengers three or four feet higher , and of convenient breadth for eight or ten to go a ...
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... coaches passing every moment over the bridge , to a new spectator is an agreeable diversion . Other bridges there are , as that of Notre Dame and the Pont - au - Change , & c . , fairly built , with houses of stone , which are laid over ...
... coaches passing every moment over the bridge , to a new spectator is an agreeable diversion . Other bridges there are , as that of Notre Dame and the Pont - au - Change , & c . , fairly built , with houses of stone , which are laid over ...
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... coach , they being put beside all patience . The next day , we went into the Uni- versity , and into the College of Navarre , which is a spacious well - built quadrangle , having a very noble library . Thence to the Sorbonne , an ...
... coach , they being put beside all patience . The next day , we went into the Uni- versity , and into the College of Navarre , which is a spacious well - built quadrangle , having a very noble library . Thence to the Sorbonne , an ...
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