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Page 77
... lived , was killed with hunting him . " ESTE . EARLIEST GLASGOW DIRECTORY : GLASGOW AND DUMBARTONSHIRE HISTORIES ( 6th S. ix . 9 ) .— History of Dumbartonshire , published a few years ago by W. & A. K. Johnston , Edinburgh and London ...
... lived , was killed with hunting him . " ESTE . EARLIEST GLASGOW DIRECTORY : GLASGOW AND DUMBARTONSHIRE HISTORIES ( 6th S. ix . 9 ) .— History of Dumbartonshire , published a few years ago by W. & A. K. Johnston , Edinburgh and London ...
Page 78
... lived to see the first few sheets printed off . This trans- alone in its bad notoriety for its mode of dealing lation is being produced at the expense of the Trinita- rian Bible Society . His versions of Shakspeare created with its ...
... lived to see the first few sheets printed off . This trans- alone in its bad notoriety for its mode of dealing lation is being produced at the expense of the Trinita- rian Bible Society . His versions of Shakspeare created with its ...
Page 79
... lived , and the very room in which he died , were then to be seen , apparently very little altered from the time when he occupied them . F. A. MARSHALL . Allowing for no considerable excess of local and picturesque colouring , it seems ...
... lived , and the very room in which he died , were then to be seen , apparently very little altered from the time when he occupied them . F. A. MARSHALL . Allowing for no considerable excess of local and picturesque colouring , it seems ...
Page 87
... lived in 1683 ( vide Visitation of Worcester for 1683 ) ? They bore for their arms , A greyhound courant between two bars sable , and crest , a cocka- trice double wattled gules . Any information re- specting the above family will be ...
... lived in 1683 ( vide Visitation of Worcester for 1683 ) ? They bore for their arms , A greyhound courant between two bars sable , and crest , a cocka- trice double wattled gules . Any information re- specting the above family will be ...
Page 96
... lived at Whittlesea , where there was a French Protestant Church before 1685 ( Agnew , vol . i . p . 10 ) , and I have been told that both at Whittlesea and Thorney there was for a time a considerable French colony . The original ...
... lived at Whittlesea , where there was a French Protestant Church before 1685 ( Agnew , vol . i . p . 10 ) , and I have been told that both at Whittlesea and Thorney there was for a time a considerable French colony . The original ...
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