Scotland in the Time of Queen MaryMethuen & Company, 1904 - 243 páginas |
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... French visitor , as well as from native testimony , that at the close of the sixteenth century , as many as a hundred could be counted within two leagues ' distance . 35 The most important towns of Lothian , as specified by ...
... French visitor , as well as from native testimony , that at the close of the sixteenth century , as many as a hundred could be counted within two leagues ' distance . 35 The most important towns of Lothian , as specified by ...
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... French chronicler , who saw Dunbar in 1549 , writes of that town to the following effect . The town , he says , stands " in such an excellent tract of country and [ is ] accommodated with so many good things which profit the life of man ...
... French chronicler , who saw Dunbar in 1549 , writes of that town to the following effect . The town , he says , stands " in such an excellent tract of country and [ is ] accommodated with so many good things which profit the life of man ...
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... French- man writes in 1548 ; and Bishop Leslie , some thirty years later , expatiates on its bustling trade and delectable situation.58 To the fertility of Angus and the Mearns there is concurrent testimony at least from the fifteenth ...
... French- man writes in 1548 ; and Bishop Leslie , some thirty years later , expatiates on its bustling trade and delectable situation.58 To the fertility of Angus and the Mearns there is concurrent testimony at least from the fifteenth ...
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... French physician who was in Scotland about 1551 has this passage in his narrative of what he saw : " The country is but poor in gold and silver , but plentiful in provisions , which are as cheap as in any part of the world . They ( the ...
... French physician who was in Scotland about 1551 has this passage in his narrative of what he saw : " The country is but poor in gold and silver , but plentiful in provisions , which are as cheap as in any part of the world . They ( the ...
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... French fellow at a much later date in the reign of the magnificent Louis XIV . which covered the latter half of the - seventeenth century . The passage in which the description occurs is a classical one in French literature , as ...
... French fellow at a much later date in the reign of the magnificent Louis XIV . which covered the latter half of the - seventeenth century . The passage in which the description occurs is a classical one in French literature , as ...
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