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... King's College was erected in 1500 ; and Mareschal College was founded by George Keith , earl mareschal of Scotland , in 1593 . ABERDEEN , SEE OF . King Malcolm III . having gained a great victory over the Danes in the year 1010 ...
... King's College was erected in 1500 ; and Mareschal College was founded by George Keith , earl mareschal of Scotland , in 1593 . ABERDEEN , SEE OF . King Malcolm III . having gained a great victory over the Danes in the year 1010 ...
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... KING HENRY VIII . Bishop Fisher and earl of Surrey , Cardinal Thomas Wolsey Sir Thomas More and Cranmer KING JAMES II . 1509 Earls of Sunderland and Tyrconnell , Sir William Cecil , afterwards lord Bur- leigh ; chief minister during ...
... KING HENRY VIII . Bishop Fisher and earl of Surrey , Cardinal Thomas Wolsey Sir Thomas More and Cranmer KING JAMES II . 1509 Earls of Sunderland and Tyrconnell , Sir William Cecil , afterwards lord Bur- leigh ; chief minister during ...
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... KING's . The first mention of one attending the king's person in England , was on Edward III . 1844 ; when he settled a pension of three - pence per diem for life on Coursus de Gangeland , for taking care of him during his illness in ...
... KING's . The first mention of one attending the king's person in England , was on Edward III . 1844 ; when he settled a pension of three - pence per diem for life on Coursus de Gangeland , for taking care of him during his illness in ...
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... king's books , by an extent taken fifteen James I. it is valued at £ 400 sterling a year ; but it is now estimated ... kings of Syria . The Armenians were the original worshippers of fire : they also paid great veneration to Venus ...
... king's books , by an extent taken fifteen James I. it is valued at £ 400 sterling a year ; but it is now estimated ... kings of Syria . The Armenians were the original worshippers of fire : they also paid great veneration to Venus ...
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... king of France , in 1369 , et seq . for the defence of Paris against the English , completed in 1383 . It was afterwards ... king's books at £ 531 1s . 3d . per annum . BATH , ORDER OF THE . The origin of this order is ascribed to the ...
... king of France , in 1369 , et seq . for the defence of Paris against the English , completed in 1383 . It was afterwards ... king's books at £ 531 1s . 3d . per annum . BATH , ORDER OF THE . The origin of this order is ascribed to the ...
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Page 71 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 28 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 418 - Barons' eldest Sons. Knights of the Garter. Privy Councillors. Chancellor of the Exchequer. "Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. Master of the Rolls.
Page 158 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 162 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Page 460 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 437 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Page 156 - Crispinus and Crispianus were brethren, born at Rome ; from whence they travelled to Soissons in France, about the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion ; but because they would not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised the trade of shoemakers; but the governor of the town discovering them to be Christians, ordered them to be beheaded about the year 303 From which time, the shoemakers made choice of them for their tutelar saints.
Page 435 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 17 - Formerly the oath of allegiance ran thus : ' I do promise to be true and faithful to the King and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear, of life, and limb, and terrene honour ; and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him, without defending him therefrom:' and was altered at the Revolution to the present form.