Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 16Leslie Stephen Macmillan, 1888 - Great Britain |
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... says Fuller , who gives the 5 March 1531 for the rectory of Cottingham , wrong year of his death , the change of the Northamptonshire ( BRIDGES , Northampton- Aire was conceived to hasten his great change ' shire , ii . 299 ) . He ...
... says Fuller , who gives the 5 March 1531 for the rectory of Cottingham , wrong year of his death , the change of the Northamptonshire ( BRIDGES , Northampton- Aire was conceived to hasten his great change ' shire , ii . 299 ) . He ...
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... say in Drayton's praise . Drayton's last work was ' The Muses Eli- zium lately discovered by a new way over Parnassus ... says Meres in 1598 , is reputed among all Morley's First Book of Ballets , ' 1595 ; Chris- writers to be of an ...
... say in Drayton's praise . Drayton's last work was ' The Muses Eli- zium lately discovered by a new way over Parnassus ... says Meres in 1598 , is reputed among all Morley's First Book of Ballets , ' 1595 ; Chris- writers to be of an ...
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... says that his ' knowledge and counsel won him a gene- ral love ' ( Surv . of Devon , 1811 , p . 43 ) . His death appears to have been sudden , and is ascribed by John Chamberlain , in a letter dated 4 May 1598 , to gaol fever caught ...
... says that his ' knowledge and counsel won him a gene- ral love ' ( Surv . of Devon , 1811 , p . 43 ) . His death appears to have been sudden , and is ascribed by John Chamberlain , in a letter dated 4 May 1598 , to gaol fever caught ...
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... says that ' a general feeling of sharpness and coarse- ness pervades Droeshout's plate , and the head looks very large and prominent with reference to the size of the page and the type - letters around it ; but there is very little to ...
... says that ' a general feeling of sharpness and coarse- ness pervades Droeshout's plate , and the head looks very large and prominent with reference to the size of the page and the type - letters around it ; but there is very little to ...
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... says the time for the conference proposed by Richard is too soon , as the king is in a distant part of Scotland , and requests Richard , if the king has ap- pointed a more convenient time , to send some of his councillors to make a good ...
... says the time for the conference proposed by Richard is too soon , as the king is in a distant part of Scotland , and requests Richard , if the king has ap- pointed a more convenient time , to send some of his councillors to make a good ...
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