The Vintners' Company: Their Muniments, Plate, and Eminent Members, with Some Account of the Ward of Vintry

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Thomas Milbourn
Vintners' Company, for private circulation, 1888 - 130 Seiten
 

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Seite 89 - Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
Seite 78 - In his will, dated 1344,t he desires to be buried in the church of the Blessed Mary of " Fancherche"; and, among divers bequests, he leaves to his daughter Lucy a tenement, with appurtenances, in the parish of "Fancherch," called " Scot o' the hop
Seite 118 - This was that the boats were to remain moored in the river two ebbs and a flood, during which period the merchants were to sell no part of their cargo, it being the duty of one of the sheriffs and the King's Chamberlain to board each vessel in the meantime, and to select for the royal use such precious stones, massive plate of gold or silver (called 'Work of Solomon'), tapestry of Constantinople, or other valuable articles, as they might think proper; the price thereof being duly assessed by lawful...
Seite 32 - Charter, shall for ever hereafter be one body corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, by the name and style " THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN AMERICA...
Seite 113 - Britain is here associated with Gaul and Spain. Its climate, compared with these other places, would be against successful cultivation ; but the Romans were a people not deterred * C.
Seite 8 - Commonalty etc. [The judgment was] that the said John Penrose shall drink a draught of the same wine which he sold to the common people ; and the remainder of such wine shall then be poured on the head of the same John ; and that he shall forswear the calling of a vintner in the City of London for ever, unless he can obtain the favour of our Lord the King as to the same.
Seite 61 - Worpf Company of Vintners, Anno Dom. 1706. Upon it are the arms of the Company, and those of Cox, viz. Or, three bars azure, on a canton gules a lion's head erased argent. This tankard is much older than the date of the gift, for the plate-mark, the small black letter t, answers to the year 1682. The weight is 48 oz. 10 dwts. A small MONTEITH, SILVER, 8 inches high, 12 inches in diameter, with lion-handles, escalloped edges, fluted body, and gadrooned foot. It has the arms of the Company, and a coat,...
Seite 39 - An Act for reversing the judgment in a Quo Warranto against the city of London, and for restoring the city of London to its ancient rights and privileges...
Seite 81 - My lord and king, be not aggrieved: I covet not your gold, but your play; for I have not bid you hither that I might grieve you, but that amongst other things I might try your play;' and gave him his money again, plentifully bestowing his own amongst the retinue.
Seite 58 - This female holds above her head a small vessel in form of a pail, on the underside of which is a Tudor rose ; this pail is hung on pivots let into scrolls from the hands of the figure. The whole forms a double cup, and is a trick...

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