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Page 4 - The British Society for extending the Fisheries and improving the Sea Coasts of the Kingdom...
Page 2 - The Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas, and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery, &c.
Page 4 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Page 4 - Society, and one of the first promoters of the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews.
Page 3 - This article was first manufactured in England by Flemish weavers, under the protection of Henry III., 1253. Before this period woollen shirts were generally worn. A company of linen weavers established itself in London, in 1368 ; and the art of staining linen became known in 1579. A colony of Scots in the reign of James I., and other Presbyterians who fled from persecution in that country in...
Page 73 - This court had its origin in the desire to render justice complete, and to moderate the rigour of other courts that are bound to the strict letter of the law. It gives relief to or against...
Page 72 - He called a parliament, where, besides the barons of his own party, and several ecclesiastics, who were not immediate tenants of the crown, he ordered returns to be made of two knights from every shire ; and also deputies from the boroughs, which had been hitherto considered as too inconsiderable to have a voice in legislation. This is the first confused outline of an English House of Commons.