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... Coventry . The two were modern , and were at Boulton and Watts ' , and at Heaton and Sons ' , now the " Mint , Birmingham , Limited . " Thus we go a long way into the past , and come down to almost yesterday . It will be of interest to ...
... Coventry . The two were modern , and were at Boulton and Watts ' , and at Heaton and Sons ' , now the " Mint , Birmingham , Limited . " Thus we go a long way into the past , and come down to almost yesterday . It will be of interest to ...
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... Warwickshire . This is the more noteworthy , because in the heart of the county , to the south of Coventry , was Cheylesmore - once the seat of the great Leofric , and afterwards granted Old Warwickshire Coins , Tokens , and Medals . 13.
... Warwickshire . This is the more noteworthy , because in the heart of the county , to the south of Coventry , was Cheylesmore - once the seat of the great Leofric , and afterwards granted Old Warwickshire Coins , Tokens , and Medals . 13.
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... Coventry , which in the 15th century was an important city , famous for its " devilish " and " unlearned " Parliaments , which assembled in the Chapter House ; the former so called from the number of its attainders , and the latter from ...
... Coventry , which in the 15th century was an important city , famous for its " devilish " and " unlearned " Parliaments , which assembled in the Chapter House ; the former so called from the number of its attainders , and the latter from ...
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... Coventry is specially mentioned . Ruding surmises that the minting was done at Cheylesmore , which , as has been stated , was a royal domain , but not within the Coventry jurisdiction ; " and this , " he says , " will sufficiently ...
... Coventry is specially mentioned . Ruding surmises that the minting was done at Cheylesmore , which , as has been stated , was a royal domain , but not within the Coventry jurisdiction ; " and this , " he says , " will sufficiently ...
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... Coventry had some special privileges as to coining , and so there were City tokens bearing the City Arms - an Elephant and Castle . But besides these of Coventry there were other official or semi - official tokens , viz . , from the ...
... Coventry had some special privileges as to coining , and so there were City tokens bearing the City Arms - an Elephant and Castle . But besides these of Coventry there were other official or semi - official tokens , viz . , from the ...
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Page 25 - Most ambitiously. Princes' images on their tombs do not lie, as they were wont, seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under their cheeks, as if they died of the toothache : they are not carved with their eyes fixed upon the stars; but as their minds were wholly bent upon the world, the selfsame way they seem to turn their faces.
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Page 1 - Alas ! from the day that we met, What hope of an end to my woes ? When I cannot endure to forget The glance that undid my repose. Yet time may diminish the pain : The flower, and the shrub, and the tree, Which I reared for her pleasure in vain, In time may have comfort for me.
Page 66 - Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine : Though still some traces of our rustic vein And splay-foot verse remain'd, and will remain.
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Page 2 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgement and such fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers.