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... residence , now the seat of the Earls of Sandwich . Sir Henry , styled from his popular qualities the " Golden Knight , " lived till 1604 , and was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son Sir Oliver , who made a great figure for some ...
... residence , now the seat of the Earls of Sandwich . Sir Henry , styled from his popular qualities the " Golden Knight , " lived till 1604 , and was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son Sir Oliver , who made a great figure for some ...
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... residence was with his mother at Huntingdon . What is positively known is that it was in London he found his wife . On the 22nd of August , 1620 , he was married in St. Giles's Church , Cripplegate , to Elizabeth Bourchier , daughter of ...
... residence was with his mother at Huntingdon . What is positively known is that it was in London he found his wife . On the 22nd of August , 1620 , he was married in St. Giles's Church , Cripplegate , to Elizabeth Bourchier , daughter of ...
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... residence at St. Ives was now drawing to a close . A few days after the letter we have just quoted was written , his uncle Sir Thomas Steward died at Ely ; he was buried in the cathedral there on the 30th of January , 1636. We have seen ...
... residence at St. Ives was now drawing to a close . A few days after the letter we have just quoted was written , his uncle Sir Thomas Steward died at Ely ; he was buried in the cathedral there on the 30th of January , 1636. We have seen ...
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... resident here . The tomb of her first husband and child , Johannes Lynne and poor little Catharina Lynne , is in the cathedral hard by . ' " " Cromwell continued to live at Ely till the breaking out of the quarrel between the king and ...
... resident here . The tomb of her first husband and child , Johannes Lynne and poor little Catharina Lynne , is in the cathedral hard by . ' " " Cromwell continued to live at Ely till the breaking out of the quarrel between the king and ...
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... residence of the soul , and when that is filled with steams and vapours arising from unconcocted crudities in the stomach , the soul must needs , malè habitare , dwell uncheerfully , ill accommodated in so smoky a mansion ; and as ...
... residence of the soul , and when that is filled with steams and vapours arising from unconcocted crudities in the stomach , the soul must needs , malè habitare , dwell uncheerfully , ill accommodated in so smoky a mansion ; and as ...
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