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... Earl of Carnarvon , Earl of Rosebery . The Library contains 100,000 Volumes of Ancient and Modern Literature , in various Languages . Subscriptions , 31. a year , or 21. with Entrance - fee of 6 .; Life Membership , 261. Fifteen Volumes ...
... Earl of Carnarvon , Earl of Rosebery . The Library contains 100,000 Volumes of Ancient and Modern Literature , in various Languages . Subscriptions , 31. a year , or 21. with Entrance - fee of 6 .; Life Membership , 261. Fifteen Volumes ...
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... Earl of Castlehaven , of infamous memory , and Alice , the second daughter , became in 1606 the wife of Sir Francis Bacon ( Spedding's Life , iii . 290 ) . Sir Francis Barnham - in many cases so surrounded by land as to was thus related ...
... Earl of Castlehaven , of infamous memory , and Alice , the second daughter , became in 1606 the wife of Sir Francis Bacon ( Spedding's Life , iii . 290 ) . Sir Francis Barnham - in many cases so surrounded by land as to was thus related ...
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... Earl of Powis . It is about a mile distant from the town of Welshpool . W. W. THE GLASTONBURY THORN ( 6th S. vi . 513 ; vii . 217 , 258 ) .- Several trees which are descended by cuttings from the Holy Thorn still exist in and about ...
... Earl of Powis . It is about a mile distant from the town of Welshpool . W. W. THE GLASTONBURY THORN ( 6th S. vi . 513 ; vii . 217 , 258 ) .- Several trees which are descended by cuttings from the Holy Thorn still exist in and about ...
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... Earl of Suffolk was Chancellor of Richard II . AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED ( 6th S. vi . A. Allow me to correct an error in MR . WHIST'S communication concerning Lady Bellenden . Minna and Brenda were not the daughters , but the nieces ...
... Earl of Suffolk was Chancellor of Richard II . AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED ( 6th S. vi . A. Allow me to correct an error in MR . WHIST'S communication concerning Lady Bellenden . Minna and Brenda were not the daughters , but the nieces ...
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... Earl of Essex . signed J. P. " E Museo meo Londini , die Maie 25 , 1685. " The Kalish Revolution ; containing Observations on Man and Manners . By Durus , King of Kalikang ; who was born in the Reign of the Emperor Augustus , travelled ...
... Earl of Essex . signed J. P. " E Museo meo Londini , die Maie 25 , 1685. " The Kalish Revolution ; containing Observations on Man and Manners . By Durus , King of Kalikang ; who was born in the Reign of the Emperor Augustus , travelled ...
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