The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County: Middlesex |
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... Leicester . To Mr. NICHOLS I feel very particularly obliged for the liberality and kindness , as well as for the promptitude he displayed in correcting all the proof - sheets of the county How very different is this conduct to that of ...
... Leicester . To Mr. NICHOLS I feel very particularly obliged for the liberality and kindness , as well as for the promptitude he displayed in correcting all the proof - sheets of the county How very different is this conduct to that of ...
Page 58
... Leicester , Lincoln , and Derby * : and he claimed as Earl of Leicester , the office of hereditary seneschal , or Steward of England ; as Duke of Lancaster , to bear the great sword called Curtana , before the kings of England at their ...
... Leicester , Lincoln , and Derby * : and he claimed as Earl of Leicester , the office of hereditary seneschal , or Steward of England ; as Duke of Lancaster , to bear the great sword called Curtana , before the kings of England at their ...
Page 108
... Leicester , but is now in the patronage of the Hoghton family . The parish is large , and has three chapels of ease ; Brough- ton , St. Lawrence , and the New Chapel . But the last had no certain endowment until the Rev. Samuel Peploe ...
... Leicester , but is now in the patronage of the Hoghton family . The parish is large , and has three chapels of ease ; Brough- ton , St. Lawrence , and the New Chapel . But the last had no certain endowment until the Rev. Samuel Peploe ...
Page 279
... Leicester . That computation was perhaps exag- gerated ; but the numbers must have been very great , as we find by the report of the committee of the House of Commons this same year , on the business of the commercial intercourse with ...
... Leicester . That computation was perhaps exag- gerated ; but the numbers must have been very great , as we find by the report of the committee of the House of Commons this same year , on the business of the commercial intercourse with ...
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... Leicester - House , Lei- cester - Fields , and afterwards it was removed to Blackfriar's- Bridge , where a large building was purposely erected to receive it , and where it was considerably augmented by Mr. Parkinson , the successful ...
... Leicester - House , Lei- cester - Fields , and afterwards it was removed to Blackfriar's- Bridge , where a large building was purposely erected to receive it , and where it was considerably augmented by Mr. Parkinson , the successful ...
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