Excursions in the County of Surrey: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations, Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity : Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller & Tourist : Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, Including a Map of the CountyLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - NEH British History Preservation Project - 1996 - 190 pages |
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... Romans maintained their power in our island , this county formed a part of that large pro- vince southward of the Thames and Severn , which they distinguished as Britannia Prima . But on the new par- tition of the country which took ...
... Romans maintained their power in our island , this county formed a part of that large pro- vince southward of the Thames and Severn , which they distinguished as Britannia Prima . But on the new par- tition of the country which took ...
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... Roman roads , as well as of stations and encampments attributed to those con- querors , are yet visible in various places . Surrey has no manufactures which can properly be considered as peculiar to it , though its contiguity to London ...
... Roman roads , as well as of stations and encampments attributed to those con- querors , are yet visible in various places . Surrey has no manufactures which can properly be considered as peculiar to it , though its contiguity to London ...
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... Roman annals . The name also , com- pounded of the Saxon Gild ( i . e . a company , or frater- nity , united for the purposes of trade ) , and a ford , or passage of a river , upon the supposition that some such trading establishment ...
... Roman annals . The name also , com- pounded of the Saxon Gild ( i . e . a company , or frater- nity , united for the purposes of trade ) , and a ford , or passage of a river , upon the supposition that some such trading establishment ...
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... Roman habit ; his left arın reclining on several volumes of votes and journals of the house of commons , to which append two scrolls , with inscriptions recording the " Thanks of the house , for his constant and unwearied attendance in ...
... Roman habit ; his left arın reclining on several volumes of votes and journals of the house of commons , to which append two scrolls , with inscriptions recording the " Thanks of the house , for his constant and unwearied attendance in ...
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... Roman - catholic Chapel , and Meeting - houses for congregations of Quakers , Presbyterians , and Baptists . Various recent improvements in the town and its vicinity are sufficient evidence that its wealth and importance are yearly on ...
... Roman - catholic Chapel , and Meeting - houses for congregations of Quakers , Presbyterians , and Baptists . Various recent improvements in the town and its vicinity are sufficient evidence that its wealth and importance are yearly on ...
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Page 109 - King Henry making a Masque at the cardinal Wolsey's House, and certain Cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the Paper, or other stuff", wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
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Page 77 - The Castle of Indolence,' &c. who died at Richmond, on the 22nd of August, and was buried there on the 29th, OS 1748. The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, has denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792.
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Page 109 - ... which fell out by a peal of chambers, (that I know not upon what occasion were to be used in the play) the tampin or stopple of one of them lighting in the thatch that...