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Hace 4 días · Here were portraits of Sir Joseph Sheldon, Lord Mayor, 1677, by Gerard Soest, and a three-quarter length of Sir Robert Clayton, by Kneller, 1680, seated in a chair—a great benefactor to Christ's Hospital, and to that of St. Thomas, in Southwark; and two benefactors—Sir William Boreman, an officer of the Board of Green Cloth in the reigns of ...
Hace 5 días · Sir Gawain And The Green Knight. Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, Middle English alliterative poem of unknown authorship, dating from the second half of the 14th century (perhaps 1375). It is a chivalric romance that tells a tale of enchantment in an Arthurian setting. Its hero, Sir Gawayne (Gawain), is presented as a devout but humanly ...
Hace 4 días · The tenor of his treasonable letter was as follows:— (fn. 1) "To the noble Baron and Lord Provost of Paris, sweet Sire, at the (fn. 2) Wood of Viciens, his liege man (fn. 3) at his hands, greeting. Dear Sire, know that I am come to the Court of the King of England, sound and hearty; and I found the King at London, and he asked much news of me ...
Hace 5 días · 1377, Robert Lorymer, by Sir Thomas Maundevil, Knt. John Cley, &c. Robert Dygges, in 1399, occurs rector, as appears by a deed, probably the same person. 1408, John de Wattesson, by Sir John de Ingaldesthorp. 1448, William Wykeham, by Sir Thomas de Scales Lord Scales and Nucellis. 1456, Mr. Thomas Sutton, LL B. by Sir Thomas, &c.
Hace 4 días · Rokeby Manor, however, perhaps passed out of his hands earlier, for in 1610 Sir Thomas Rokeby sold to William Robinson of Brignall, his heirs and assigns, all the lands of Rokeby and Mortham within these boundaries—from Greta Bridge along the Greta to the Tees, along the Tees west to a croft parcel of Rokeby vicarage, thence south to the town of Rokeby by the boundaries, thence between the ...
Hace 5 días · Biography. Thomas Holt, lawyer, was born about 1616 at Stoke in Oxfordshire and educated at Magdalen Hall in Oxford. About 1640, he married Susan Peacock of Chawley, near Cumnor. His activities during the Civil War are unknown, but by 1648 he was a barrister of Gray’s Inn.
Hace 3 días · Skinner Street. North-west from Giltspur Street to Farringdon Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1848-51). First formed in 1802 on the line of the present Holborn Viaduct to avoid the steep and winding ascent of Snow Hill.
