The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble RiverVernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1811 - Thames River (England) |
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... King- ston in Surrey . The river now assumes a more polished , and , as it has long possessed , a classical character . Twickenham with its gardens and its meads , and Ham , scarce seen in its leafy bowers , adorn the banks of the river ...
... King- ston in Surrey . The river now assumes a more polished , and , as it has long possessed , a classical character . Twickenham with its gardens and its meads , and Ham , scarce seen in its leafy bowers , adorn the banks of the river ...
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... king , and , at the expence of his majesty , was buried with great pomp and solemnity , at Colne , in the county of Essex . The death of this nobleman gave a curious subject for the ridiculous superstition of those days , —in the ...
... king , and , at the expence of his majesty , was buried with great pomp and solemnity , at Colne , in the county of Essex . The death of this nobleman gave a curious subject for the ridiculous superstition of those days , —in the ...
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... King Alfred , James the Second , Queen Mary the consort of William the Third , and Queen Anne . All Souls College is also in the High Street . - The altar- piece represents the Assumption of the founder , Archbishop Chichely , by Sir ...
... King Alfred , James the Second , Queen Mary the consort of William the Third , and Queen Anne . All Souls College is also in the High Street . - The altar- piece represents the Assumption of the founder , Archbishop Chichely , by Sir ...
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... king kept his court , and hither the people resorted while consultations were depending about the greatest and most weighty affairs in the kingdom . " Ciss , a king of the West Saxons , built a spacious abbey here about the year 675 ...
... king kept his court , and hither the people resorted while consultations were depending about the greatest and most weighty affairs in the kingdom . " Ciss , a king of the West Saxons , built a spacious abbey here about the year 675 ...
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... King John , by Hugh de Bolbec , to the Cistercian monks of Wooburne , in Bedfordshire , they transferred some of their society to this spot , about the year 1204 , and it became a small Abbey of that order , being rather a daughter , to ...
... King John , by Hugh de Bolbec , to the Cistercian monks of Wooburne , in Bedfordshire , they transferred some of their society to this spot , about the year 1204 , and it became a small Abbey of that order , being rather a daughter , to ...
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