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 | Sir Henry Spelman - 1846 - 546 Seiten
...king Henry VIII. there was a clockier or bell-house adjoining to S. Paul's church in London, with four very great bells in it, called Jesus bells. Sir Miles...worse fortune when he lost his life, being executed on the ToweY-hill, for matters concerning the duke of Somerset.* In the year of our Lord 1541, Arthur... | |
 | 1848 - 792 Seiten
...King Henry VIII. there was a clockier or bell-house adjoining to S. Paul's Church in London, with four very great bells in it, called Jesus bells. Sir Miles...played at dice with the king for these bells, staking a hundred pounds against them, and won them, and then melted • and sold them to a very great gain.... | |
 | George Ayliffe Poole - 1848 - 478 Seiten
...bell-house adjoining to S. Paul's Church in London, with four very great bells in it, called Jesus-bells. Sir Miles Partridge, a courtier, once played at dice with the king for these bells, staking a hundred pounds against them, and won them, and then melted and sold them to a very great gain. But... | |
 | Sir Henry Spelman - 1853 - 462 Seiten
...King Henry VIII. there was a clockier or bell-house adjoining to S. Paul's church in London, with four very great bells in it, called Jesus bells. Sir Miles...worse fortune when he lost his life, being executed on the Tower-hill, for matters concerning the Duke of Somerset.2 In the year of our LORD 1541, Arthur... | |
 | Henry Thomas Ellacombe - 1881 - 252 Seiten
...£100 against them, and won them, and then melted and sold them to a very great gain. But in the 5th year of King Edward VI. this gamester had worse fortune when he lost his life, being executed on the Tower Hill for matters concerning the Duke of Somerset. " In the year of our Lord 1541, Arthur... | |
 | Sir Henry Spelman - 1888 - 472 Seiten
...king Henry VIII. there was a clockier or bell-house adjoining to S. Paul's church in London, with four very great bells in it, called Jesus bells. Sir Miles...worse fortune when he lost his life, being executed ' Ex relatione M. Eandinell Decani ibidem. on the Tower-hill, for matters concerning the duke of Somerset.*... | |
 | Sir Henry Spelman - 1895 - 496 Seiten
...king Henry VIII. there was a clockier or bell-house adjoining to S. Paul's church in London, with four very great bells in it, called Jesus bells. Sir Miles...a courtier, once played at dice with the king for tbese bells, staking £100 against them, and won them, and then melted and sold them to a very great... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1896 - 830 Seiten
...rest was pulled down." It is, perhaps, satisfactory to read what follows : " This man was afterwards executed on Tower Hill for matters concerning the Duke of Somerset, the sth of Edward VI." The " brief declaration or view " of the steeple is as follows : PRO Land Revenue.... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1903 - 482 Seiten
...down. " But," adds Spelman in his " History of Sacrilege," " in the fifth year of King Edward VI. the gamester had worse fortune when he lost his life, being executed on Tower Hill." Queen Mary in her young days was fond of betting and wagers, and many items of high play and of money... | |
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