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... Though published anonymously and without date , there is ample evidence to identify its authorship 6 with Wallis , if compared with his later works 11 S. VIII . JULY 5 , 1913. ] NOTES AND QUERIES . 1 LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913. ...
... Though published anonymously and without date , there is ample evidence to identify its authorship 6 with Wallis , if compared with his later works 11 S. VIII . JULY 5 , 1913. ] NOTES AND QUERIES . 1 LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913. ...
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... evidence given - it would appear they were all destroyed . It also seems probable that the titles of later issues were transposed or combined . The British Museum has a copy of Or Magna Charta ; More News from Rome , ' 1666 , but an ...
... evidence given - it would appear they were all destroyed . It also seems probable that the titles of later issues were transposed or combined . The British Museum has a copy of Or Magna Charta ; More News from Rome , ' 1666 , but an ...
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... there is no overwhelming internal evidence . " Mr. Macdonald , on the other hand , appears to be more confident and affirms that 66 we They should be tarred or painted to pre- serve them 11 S. VIII . JULY 5 , 1913. ] NOTES AND QUERIES .
... there is no overwhelming internal evidence . " Mr. Macdonald , on the other hand , appears to be more confident and affirms that 66 we They should be tarred or painted to pre- serve them 11 S. VIII . JULY 5 , 1913. ] NOTES AND QUERIES .
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... evidence given before a Royal Commission in the following year that the Chartered Gas Company , one of the three then in existence in London , supplied 8,586 houses and 172 public buildings , including seven theatres . But long before ...
... evidence given before a Royal Commission in the following year that the Chartered Gas Company , one of the three then in existence in London , supplied 8,586 houses and 172 public buildings , including seven theatres . But long before ...
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... evidence . The writer ( Sir Laurence Gomme ) then proceeds : - " Writing at about that time ( 1775 ) , Walter Harrison , in describing Queen Square , states that at the north end of it is a very handsome statue of however , to be some ...
... evidence . The writer ( Sir Laurence Gomme ) then proceeds : - " Writing at about that time ( 1775 ) , Walter Harrison , in describing Queen Square , states that at the north end of it is a very handsome statue of however , to be some ...
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