Memorials of St. James's Palace, Volume 2Longmans, Green & Company, 1894 - Great Britain |
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Page 113 - The First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Secretaries of State.
Page 336 - And who that had beheld such a bankrupt beggarly fellow as Cromwell first entering the Parliament house with a threadbare, torn cloak, and a greasy hat (and perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected that in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king and the banishment of another, ascend the throne...
Page 22 - ... that he should leave St. James's, with all his family, when it could be done without prejudice or inconvenience to the princess.
Page 185 - Hervey, but before the last arrived the Queen was just dead. All she said before she died was: "I have now got an asthma. Open the window." Then she said: "Pray." Upon which the Princess Emily began to read some prayers, of which she scarce repeated ten words before the Queen expired. The Princess Caroline held a looking-glass to her lips, and finding there was not the least damp upon it, cried: "'Tis over...
Page 211 - No beauty so kind, My parts to regard or my person to mind ; Nay, I scarce have the sight of one feminine face, But those of old Oxford or ugly Arglass. " ' Those sorrowful matrons with hearts full of ruth, Repent for the manifold sins of their youth ; The rest...
Page 236 - (the first time it hath been ready for her), I crowded after her, and I got up to the room where her closet is ; and there stood and saw the fine altar, ornaments, and the fryers in their habits, and the priests come in with their fine copes and many other very fine things.
Page 110 - Contemporary accounts state that as the Prince moved along he was greeted with loud clapping of hands from the men, and enthusiastic waving of handkerchiefs from the assembled ladies. In his hand he carried a Bible bound in green velvet. Over his shoulders was hung the collar of the Garter surmounted by two white rosettes.
Page 336 - South said with great composure, ' My Lord. I am sorry to interrupt your repose, but I must beg you will not snore so loud, lest you awaken His Majesty.
Page 360 - I asked Dr. Arne if he knew who was the composer ; he said he had not the least knowledge, nor could he guess at all who was either the author or the composer, but that it was a received opinion that it was written and composed for the Catholic chapel of James II...
Page 340 - III., after his accession to the throne, was to issue an order prohibiting any of the clergy who should be called to preach before him from paying him any compliment in their discourses. His Majesty was led to this from the fulsome adulation which Dr. Thomas Wilson, Prebendary of Westminster, thought proper to deliver in the Chapel Royal, and for which, instead of thanks, he received from his royal, auditor a pointed reprimand, his Majesty observing " that he came to the chapel to hear the praises...