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  • "Brydges," interrupted Moyese sharply, "I'm going to tell you something; and you put it in your pipe and smoke it; and don't waste time running off on false clues.

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • "Brydges," said Wayland, "when you find you can't throw your pursuer off the trail by the skunk's peculiar trick of defence, I'd advise you to try kicking sand in the public's eyes and drawing a rotten herring across the trail!

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • "Brydges," said Wayland, "you have given me some frank advice.

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • Some time since when dining with Sir E Brydges he offer'd me the assistance of his purse, which I then declined, because he at the same time gave me an order on the Bankers at Canterbury for £30 being money lodged then for my benefit; but the reply from thence stated that said sum had already been drawn by another hand and transmitted to Bury St Edm for my ultimate use.

    Letter 317 2009

  • Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762 – 1837): bibliographer and genealogist, MP for Maidstone 1812 – 18.

    Index of People 2009

  • Himself a poet, Brydges was a well-connected literary gentleman to whom poor poets looked for support.

    Index of People 2009

  • Sir Egerton Brydges issues an appeal for a public subscription to aid Bloomfield who finds himself in financial distress, owing largely to 'the failure of his former booksellers'.

    A Bloomfield Chronology 2009

  • She had a brief, scandalous love affair with William Parr while Catherine was queen see also Secrets of the Tudor Court: Between Two Queens and later married Edmund Brydges.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Dorothy Bray has married Edmund Brydges and can no longer serve as a maid of honor.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • She and Ned Brydges had emerged a full hour after the rest of us made good our escape.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

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