Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volumes 66-67Pub. for J. Hinton, 1780 |
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... last will left the sum of five hundred pounds to- ward erecting this monument , and recom- mended the above inscription . " +++ The Life of this illustrious Noble- man is to be found in our Magazine Vol . XLVII . Page 337 . ON the 12th ...
... last will left the sum of five hundred pounds to- ward erecting this monument , and recom- mended the above inscription . " +++ The Life of this illustrious Noble- man is to be found in our Magazine Vol . XLVII . Page 337 . ON the 12th ...
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... last extremity ; and although her Prin- ces foon after found that her fafety depend- ed on that force , and exerted themselves to increase it by every means in their power , yet in the reign of Queen Elizabeth it did not exceed thirty ...
... last extremity ; and although her Prin- ces foon after found that her fafety depend- ed on that force , and exerted themselves to increase it by every means in their power , yet in the reign of Queen Elizabeth it did not exceed thirty ...
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... last the Committee ap- pointed by the Court of Common - council on the 12th of February , to present the freedom of this City to the Honourable Augustus Keppel , Admiral of the Blue , in a box made of Heart of Oak , ornamented and ...
... last the Committee ap- pointed by the Court of Common - council on the 12th of February , to present the freedom of this City to the Honourable Augustus Keppel , Admiral of the Blue , in a box made of Heart of Oak , ornamented and ...
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... last night from Capt . Fielding , with an account of his having fallen in with a fleet of Detch merchant ships , under con- voy of the Admiral Count Byland , with a squadron of five ships and frigates of war , Captain Fielding defired ...
... last night from Capt . Fielding , with an account of his having fallen in with a fleet of Detch merchant ships , under con- voy of the Admiral Count Byland , with a squadron of five ships and frigates of war , Captain Fielding defired ...
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... last at the island of O'why'he , one of a group of new discovered iflands , in the 22d degree of north latitude , in an affray with a nume- rous and tumultuous body of the natives . Capt . Clerke adds , that he had received every ...
... last at the island of O'why'he , one of a group of new discovered iflands , in the 22d degree of north latitude , in an affray with a nume- rous and tumultuous body of the natives . Capt . Clerke adds , that he had received every ...
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