Habits and Men with Remnants of Record Touching the Makers of BothD. McKay, 1890 - 402 pages |
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... royal family and nobles worth one thousand per annum . Knights and ladies worth four hundred marks yearly , were per- mitted to deck themselves in cloths of gold and silver , and to wear certain jewellery . Poor knights , squires , and ...
... royal family and nobles worth one thousand per annum . Knights and ladies worth four hundred marks yearly , were per- mitted to deck themselves in cloths of gold and silver , and to wear certain jewellery . Poor knights , squires , and ...
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... royal dandy that ever sat on an English throne : George IV . was the mere Dandini to that Prince Ramiro . Henry VII . , again , was utterly void of taste , and seems to have wanted a nurse more than a valet . The author of the ' Boke of ...
... royal dandy that ever sat on an English throne : George IV . was the mere Dandini to that Prince Ramiro . Henry VII . , again , was utterly void of taste , and seems to have wanted a nurse more than a valet . The author of the ' Boke of ...
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... Royal High- ness's coachman , who used to drive the maids of honour , was so sick of them , that he left his son three hundred pounds upon condition that he never married a maid of honour ! There was laxity both of manners and dress as ...
... Royal High- ness's coachman , who used to drive the maids of honour , was so sick of them , that he left his son three hundred pounds upon condition that he never married a maid of honour ! There was laxity both of manners and dress as ...
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... Royal dresses in earlier days were not turned to such base uses . Wichtlaf , King of the Mercians , gave his purple coronation robes to the monks of courteous Croyland ; and they wore the same , cut into copes and chasubles , at the ...
... Royal dresses in earlier days were not turned to such base uses . Wichtlaf , King of the Mercians , gave his purple coronation robes to the monks of courteous Croyland ; and they wore the same , cut into copes and chasubles , at the ...
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... royal and more sumptuous within . A head after the fashion of Brutus , was never seen upon noble shoulders . Among the ladies there was a mania for flowers , feathers , and many - coloured ribbons . Some wore their own hair , and some ...
... royal and more sumptuous within . A head after the fashion of Brutus , was never seen upon noble shoulders . Among the ladies there was a mania for flowers , feathers , and many - coloured ribbons . Some wore their own hair , and some ...
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