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When England briefly considered a position of General Governor over New England, Winthrop was among the final three nominees; “which however that Designe ripened not, yet Your Name keepes up an high esteeme,” Roger Williams wrote him in March of 1660.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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When England briefly considered a position of General Governor over New England, Winthrop was among the final three nominees; “which however that Designe ripened not, yet Your Name keepes up an high esteeme,” Roger Williams wrote him in March of 1660.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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When England briefly considered a position of General Governor over New England, Winthrop was among the final three nominees; “which however that Designe ripened not, yet Your Name keepes up an high esteeme,” Roger Williams wrote him in March of 1660.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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At the birth of the modern satirical print -- that is to say, in the reign of Charles I. -- we see it called "A Mad Designe;" eighty years later, when George II. was King, it was known as a "hieroglyphic;" and then onwards, through the caustic and venomous days of the mighty Gillray and
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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A Designe for Plentie, by an universall planting of
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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He had drawne the Designe of the Booke into Chapters &c; so he knew where about it would come in.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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Designe in the Perpetrators of this Barbarous Murther, was this, that the
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Designe, was willing to Concert with us. the weather growing very bad and lickly to Continue soe sum time, that as much as Ever sum shipps was abell to goe through the Sea, Capt.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Bombay; the other being a Merchantman and having no Guns, might easily have done it with a few hands, and with all the arguments and menaces he could use could scarce restraine them from their unlawful Designe, but at last prevailed, and with much ado got him cleare, and let him go about his business.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Coast, under French Colours with a Designe to decoy, met with a
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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