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London City by Walter Besant
epub |eng | 2020-07-29 | Author:Walter Besant [Besant, Walter]

THE TALLOW CHANDLERS COMPANY The first charter of incorporation of this Company bears date the 8th of March 1462, 2 Edward IV., wherein the then members of the Company are ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
London in Modern Times by London in Modern Times
epub |eng | 2018-07-31 | Author:London in Modern Times [Times, London in Modern]

CHAPTER V. FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE CITY TO THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY. Great as was the consternation described in the foregoing chapter, scarcely less terror was produced in ...
( Category: Europe February 27,2023 )
London in the Time of the Stuarts by Walter Besant
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Walter Besant [Besant, Walter]

By the charter they constituted a Governor, who must have £4000 in Bank stock; a Deputy Governor, who must have £3000; and twenty-four Directors, who must have £2000 each. The ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001 by Chris Cook John Stevenson
epub |eng | 2014-07-10 | Author:Chris Cook, John Stevenson [Chris Cook, John Stevenson]

( Category: Europe February 27,2023 )
Lord John Russell by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid
epub |eng | 1906-01-15 | Author:Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid [Reid, Stuart J.]

FOOTNOTES: [19] Life of Lord Palmerston, by the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, vol. ii. p. 95. [20] Life of E. B. Pusey, D.D., by H. P. Liddon, D.D., vol. iii. p. ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 27,2023 )
London's Teeming Streets, 1830-1914 by James Winter
epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:James Winter [Winter, James]

This blessing turned out to be a prophecy, at least in the sense that the child felt a religious inclination seemingly from the cradle on. The family moved to Ireland ...
( Category: Europe February 27,2023 )
Lord Macaulay's History of England by Bloomsbury Publishing
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bloomsbury Publishing [Publishing, Bloomsbury]

On Sunday, the eleventh of November, Burnet preached before the Prince in the Cathedral, and dilated on the signal mercy vouchsafed by God to the English Church and nation. At ...
( Category: England February 27,2023 )
Lordship in four realms by Colin Veach
epub |eng | 2015-11-01 | Author:Colin Veach [Veach, Colin]

Conclusion In the early days of the English invasion of Ireland, King Henry II had sought to control his new volatile territory by more or less emulating the practice of ...
( Category: Medieval February 27,2023 )
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius
epub |eng | 2020-02-03 | Author:Ferdinand Gregorovius [Gregorovius, Ferdinand]

* * * CHAPTER XXI THE EVE OF THE WEDDING Lucretia was impatient to leave Rome, which, she remarked to the ambassador of Ferrara, seemed to her like a prison; ...
( Category: Italy February 27,2023 )
Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England by Johanna Rickman
epub |eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:Johanna Rickman [Rickman, Johanna]

Peele’s use of Penelope’s last name mirrors Philip Sidney’s identification of his Stella as Penelope. In sonnet 37, Sidney describes Stella: My mouth doth water and my breast doth swell, ...
( Category: Medieval February 27,2023 )
The Anglo-Irish Tradition by J.C. Beckett
pdf |en | | Author: J.C. Beckett

( Category: England February 26,2023 )
The Life of Cicero, Volume One by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

* * * Chapter IX CATILINE. To wash the blackamoor white has been the favorite task of some modern historians. To find a paradox in character is a relief to ...
( Category: Italy February 26,2023 )
The Life of Cicero, Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

* * * Chapter IX. THE PHILIPPICS. b.c. 44, ætat. 63. Cicero was soon driven by the violence of Antony's conduct to relinquish the idea of moderate language, and was ...
( Category: Italy February 26,2023 )
A Life of Extremes by Tony Lurcock
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Tony Lurcock [Lurcock, Tony]

Joan and Peggy Webster Further evidence that Lapland was no longer a male preserve was the journey undertaken by two English girls, Joan and Peggy Webster, whose Footprints in Finland ...
( Category: Finland February 26,2023 )
The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
epub |eng | 2021-12-02 | Author:A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan [Mahan, A. T.]

This letter fulfils his own request to the Admiralty: "All I wish and submit to their Lordships is, that if the business is left to me, my orders may be ...
( Category: United Kingdom February 26,2023 )

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