Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 1Smith Elder, 1885 - Great Britain |
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... records which had been left to moulder in garrets , and purchasing law books for the use of the King's Bench . At the expiration of this period the Duke of Leeds , who had been his Schoolfellow at Westminster , offered him the borough ...
... records which had been left to moulder in garrets , and purchasing law books for the use of the King's Bench . At the expiration of this period the Duke of Leeds , who had been his Schoolfellow at Westminster , offered him the borough ...
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... records . And in December of the same year he introduced the first Census Act for ascertaining the population of Great Britain . Abbot had always lived on terms of great intimacy with Addington , and on the latter becoming prime ...
... records . And in December of the same year he introduced the first Census Act for ascertaining the population of Great Britain . Abbot had always lived on terms of great intimacy with Addington , and on the latter becoming prime ...
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... Records , vi . 192 ) . The volume was a new version of Richard Bristow's Motives inducing to the Catholike faith , ' ' a book of great vogue with the papists ' ( STRYPE , Annals , II . i . 498 ) . At the intreaty of others , ' Abbot ...
... Records , vi . 192 ) . The volume was a new version of Richard Bristow's Motives inducing to the Catholike faith , ' ' a book of great vogue with the papists ' ( STRYPE , Annals , II . i . 498 ) . At the intreaty of others , ' Abbot ...
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... record of academic training . He married a daughter of the once fa- mous Colonel Purefoy of Caldecote , War- wickshire ; and as the inscription on his tomb still extant there - tells us , he bravely held the manorhouse against the ...
... record of academic training . He married a daughter of the once fa- mous Colonel Purefoy of Caldecote , War- wickshire ; and as the inscription on his tomb still extant there - tells us , he bravely held the manorhouse against the ...
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... record of the situa- tion of Abbot's house in London , but his name occurs among those who in 1630 held tenements from the great south door ( of St. Paul's Cathedral ) to the south - west cor- ner of the cloister wall ' ( Cal . State ...
... record of the situa- tion of Abbot's house in London , but his name occurs among those who in 1630 held tenements from the great south door ( of St. Paul's Cathedral ) to the south - west cor- ner of the cloister wall ' ( Cal . State ...
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