Author: John EvelynPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 619
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The Diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S. from 1641 to 1705-6
Author: John EvelynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
The Diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F. R. S. from 1641 to 1705-6
Author: John EvelynPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The Diary of John Evelyn, Esq. , F. R. S. from 1641 to 1705-6; with Memoir
Author: John EvelynPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230436203
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... pension given her here, and is reported to have hasten'd her death by intemperate drinking strong spirits. She has written her own story and adventures, and so has her other extravagant sister, wife to the noble family of Colonna. 15. This week died Conyers Seymour, son of Sir Edw. Seymour, kill'd in a duel caus'd by a slight affront in St. James's Park, given him by one who was envious of his gallantries, for he was a vain foppish young man, who made a greate eclat about town by his splendid equipage and boundless expence. He was about 23 yeares old; his brother, now at Oxford, inherited an estate of .7000 a year, which had fallen to him not 2 yeares before. 19 June. My cousin Geo. Evelyn of Nutfield died suddenly. 25. The heat has ben so great almost all this month, that I do not remember to have felt much greater in Italy, and this after a Winter the wettest, tho' not the coldest, that I remember for 50 yeares last past. 28. Finding my occasions called me so often to London, I took the remainder of the lease my Son had in a house in Dover Street, to which I now remov'd, not taking my goods from Wotton. 23 July. Seasonable showers after a continuance of excessive drowth and heat. Aug. I drank the Shooters Hill waters. At Deptford they had ben building a pretty new Church.--The Bishop of St. David's [Watson] depriv'd for simony.--The city of Moscow burnt by the throwing of squibs. 3 Sept. There was in this weeke an eclipse of the sun, at which many were frighten'd by the predictions of the astrologers. I remember 50 yeares ago that many were so terrif1ed by Lilly that they durst not go out of their houses.--A strange Earthquake at New Batavia in the East Indies. 4 Oct. My worthy Brother died at Wotton in the 83rd year of his age, ...
Memoirs of John Evelyn Comprising His Diary from 1641 to 1705-6
Author: John EvelynPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Memoirs of John Evelyn ... Comprinsing His Diary, from 1641 to 1705-6, and a Selection of His Famliar Letters
Author: John EvelynMemoirs of John Evelyn ... Comprising His Diary from 1641 to 1705-06, and a Selection of His Familiar Letters. To which is Subjoined, The Private Correspondence Between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas; Also Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne ... Edited from the Original Mss. by William Bray. A New Edition, in Five Volumes
Author: John EvelynMemoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S.
Author: John EvelynMemoirs of John Evelyn, comprising his diary, from 1641 tp 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between Charles I. and sir E. Nicholas; also between sir E. Hyde and sir R. Browne, ed. by W. Bray
Author: John EvelynThe Diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F. R. S.
Author: John EvelynPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Author: John Evelyn