The Ellis Correspondence: Letters Written During the Years 1686, 1687, 1688, and Addressed to John Ellis, Esq., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland : Comprising Many Particulars of the Revolution, and Anecdotes Illustrative of the History and Manners of Those Times, Volumen2George Agar Ellis Baron Dover H. Colburn, 1829 |
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Página 337 - Lady Fitzharding and I, with one servant, walked to the coach, where we found the Bishop and the Earl of Dorset. They conducted us that night to the Bishop's house in the city and the next day to my Lord Dorset's at Copthall. From...
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