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... ROYAL DESCENTS.- The a dir Pedigrees of upwards of 38,000 Families , showing in eac lineal descent from William the Conqueror . Genealogical Search s made.-A. MILL , 16 , Calthorpe Street , London , W.C. THE MANCHESTER CATALOGUL O ...
... ROYAL DESCENTS.- The a dir Pedigrees of upwards of 38,000 Families , showing in eac lineal descent from William the Conqueror . Genealogical Search s made.-A. MILL , 16 , Calthorpe Street , London , W.C. THE MANCHESTER CATALOGUL O ...
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... Royal Cosmographers- " Bisoms Inne - Shag - ear'd - Matthews Family , 8 - Bear - skin Jobber " Down in the month " -General Grosvenor : General Wolfe - Site of Tomb Wanted - Earliest Glasgow Directory " Reminiscences of Half a Century ...
... Royal Cosmographers- " Bisoms Inne - Shag - ear'd - Matthews Family , 8 - Bear - skin Jobber " Down in the month " -General Grosvenor : General Wolfe - Site of Tomb Wanted - Earliest Glasgow Directory " Reminiscences of Half a Century ...
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... ROYAL COSMOGRAPHERS OR GEOGRAPHERS.- Where may a list of these individuals be found , and what were their duties ? I have lately met with the names of three : John Ogilby , 1600–76 , author of the road maps , 1675 ; Emanuel Bowen , who ...
... ROYAL COSMOGRAPHERS OR GEOGRAPHERS.- Where may a list of these individuals be found , and what were their duties ? I have lately met with the names of three : John Ogilby , 1600–76 , author of the road maps , 1675 ; Emanuel Bowen , who ...
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... Royal Academy in 1809 , No. 788. Peter Turnerelli was born in 1774 at Bel- = Elizabeth John de la Pole , Earl of Suffolk . Edward IV . fast . He was brought up as a priest , but preferred art . He came to London at the age of eighteen ...
... Royal Academy in 1809 , No. 788. Peter Turnerelli was born in 1774 at Bel- = Elizabeth John de la Pole , Earl of Suffolk . Edward IV . fast . He was brought up as a priest , but preferred art . He came to London at the age of eighteen ...
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... Royal Academy in 1809 , No. 788. Peter Turnerelli was born in 1774 at Bel- Elizabeth John de la Pole , Earl of Suffolk . Edward IV . fast . He was brought up as a priest , but preferred art . He came to London at the age of eighteen ...
... Royal Academy in 1809 , No. 788. Peter Turnerelli was born in 1774 at Bel- Elizabeth John de la Pole , Earl of Suffolk . Edward IV . fast . He was brought up as a priest , but preferred art . He came to London at the age of eighteen ...
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Page 284 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
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