 | Joseph Nightingale - 1813 - 436 pages
...or the skill of the critic. He says he was a descendant " of a right good race," that flourished in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary and Elizabeth. His writings certainly discover him to have been a man of learning and taste. Ha principal work is... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 696 pages
...or the skill of the critic. He says .he was a descendant " of a right good race," that flourished in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary and Elizabeth. His writings certainly discover him to have been a man of learning and taste. Hi« principal work is... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 684 pages
...about the middle of the sixteenth century. It is supposed that he was organist of the Royal Chapel in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth; but this is by no means certain, and the authority for it Seems to have rested, upon the inscription... | |
 | James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - 1828 - 232 pages
...twelvepence Irish, and not twelvepence sterling. CHARLES THE FIRST. TILL this time, and especially during the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth, it had been the lot of the people to bear all the evils arising out of a vacillating money system;... | |
 | Philip Augustus Hanrott - Private libraries - 1833 - 632 pages
...important extracts. " His fidelity," says Birch, " will always give a value to his numerous writings." " There is a charm in his manner," says Chalmers, "...its progress in England during the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary and Elizabeth. 2635 Sucquet, Via Vitae aeternae iconibus ¡Ilústrata per Bolswert,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Great Britain - 1836 - 456 pages
...dean of York and Canterbury, who, in the midst of repeated missions to France, Germany, and Scotland, during the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary and Elizabeth, found leisure to amass copious his' See Tanner, Bibl. p. 568. b He there states that bis name is expressed... | |
 | Charles Louis Schönberg - 1844 - 104 pages
...engravings, Elegantly bound in Cloth, and recently published at £l. 10s. SIR THOMAS GRESHAM lived in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth,— Reigns, not exceeded in interest by any period of our history ; and never was a man's life more actively... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Capitalists and financiers - 1845 - 276 pages
...FAMILY. THOMAS GRESHAM, the founder of the Royal Exchange, was born in the year 1519; and he lived during the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth. He was descended from a family originally settled in the county of Norfolk, and which had become considerable... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...polished nobleman, and greatly in favor at court through most of the successive changes that occurred in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth. He held the office of treasurer nearly thirty years.t Being asked how he contrived to maintain his... | |
 | Henry Tuck - Railroads - 1847 - 458 pages
...other engravings, elegantly bound tn Cloth. Recently published at .£1 105. SIR THOMAS GRESHAMlired in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth,— Reigns, not exceeded in interest by any period of our history ; and never was a man*s life more actively... | |
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OREsHAnhved in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth,— Reigns, not exceeded in interest by any period of our history ; and never was a man's life more actively and usefully spent in benefiting the land of his birth, and... 
