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... leaves of ancient churchwardens ' accounts , which contain the names of his ancestors , he was pos- sessed of a remarkably fine monumental brass , formerly in the north aisle of Great Stukeley church , Hunts . A sketch of it appears in ...
... leaves of ancient churchwardens ' accounts , which contain the names of his ancestors , he was pos- sessed of a remarkably fine monumental brass , formerly in the north aisle of Great Stukeley church , Hunts . A sketch of it appears in ...
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... leave School , but was resolvd to be a scholar . So every morning his Mo " usd to get up betimes to give him victuals & send him away to Stan- ford School before his Fa " was out of bed , & at night he usd to abscond till his Father was ...
... leave School , but was resolvd to be a scholar . So every morning his Mo " usd to get up betimes to give him victuals & send him away to Stan- ford School before his Fa " was out of bed , & at night he usd to abscond till his Father was ...
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... leaving them behind , very merrily whipping my Fa " . horse & himself too , & joking him for being deserted by his Bride . In about half a year after , my Mo " miscarried ; & on Monday the 7th Novemb . 1687 between 7 & 8 at night I was ...
... leaving them behind , very merrily whipping my Fa " . horse & himself too , & joking him for being deserted by his Bride . In about half a year after , my Mo " miscarried ; & on Monday the 7th Novemb . 1687 between 7 & 8 at night I was ...
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... leave them to their own way ; that Truth needed not & would never gain Proselytes * Indefatigable in serving thos that trusted their affairs in his hands ; ready to lend his advise & money to those that wanted it , & in vindicating them ...
... leave them to their own way ; that Truth needed not & would never gain Proselytes * Indefatigable in serving thos that trusted their affairs in his hands ; ready to lend his advise & money to those that wanted it , & in vindicating them ...
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... leave it to some of his children , he kept the Burlyon mannor in Gedney belonging to Lord Stanford , & the Cullyer Rents there of Lord Ossulstones . He was a lover of Family & other Antiquitys . Once when I was with him at Court keeping ...
... leave it to some of his children , he kept the Burlyon mannor in Gedney belonging to Lord Stanford , & the Cullyer Rents there of Lord Ossulstones . He was a lover of Family & other Antiquitys . Once when I was with him at Court keeping ...
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Page 419 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 149 - a bold insolent man, with a very small measure of religion, virtue, learning, or good sense ; but he resolved to force himself into popularity and preferment, by the most petulant railings at dissenters and low churchmen, in several sermons and libels, written without either chasteness of style or liveliness of expression.
Page 55 - And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly : the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Page 166 - May 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and widow of Colonel Lee.
Page 169 - OPINION OF DR. STUKELEY. Oct. 9, 1722. " He is making searches about the Roman ways. He is a very fancifull man, and the things he hath publish'd are built upon fancy. He is looked upon as a man of no great authority, and his reputation dwindles every day, as I have learned from very good hands.
Page 313 - In 1721 he accompanied Dr. Sherrard to England, where he spent the remainder of his days. Soon after his arrival he undertook a new edition of " Ray's Synopsis ;" and was appointed the first botanical professor at Oxford on Sherrard's foundation. He wrote " Hortus Elthamensis
Page 62 - Jan. 6, 1721. I was made a Freemason at the Salutation Tav., Tavistock Street, with Mr. Collins, Capt. Rowe who made the famous diving Engine. The Directors late paramount, now despoil'd &c. Mr. Kemps antiquitys sold. Jan. 26. Mr. Le Neve Norroy & I took some transcriptions out of Domesday book.