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Page 265 - Many of the Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries take a sufficient number of copies of the yearly Index to issue with their transactions to each of their members. The more this plan is extended the less will be the cost of the Index to each society.
Page 171 - Hor. post mend., it pleased God to put me in Mind, that I was now placed in the Condition I always desired, which was, That I might be enabled to live to myself and Studies ; without being forced to take Pains for a Livelihood in the World...
Page 173 - Fleetstreet, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true' matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.
Page 70 - ... and then ward to Thomas Lord Howard, duke of Norfolk, was by a great mischaunce slayne at Thetford, in the house of Sir Richard Falmenstone, Knt.
Page 153 - I received a summons to appear at a Lodge to be held the next day at Masons
Page 265 - If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong the plan is to include them in the following year ; and whenever the papers of societies are brought into the Index for the first time they are then indexed from the year 1891. By this means it will be seen that the year 1891 is treated as the commencing year for the Index and that all transactions published in and since that year will find their place in the series. To make this work complete an index...
Page 153 - PM. I was made a Free Mason at Warrington in Lancashire, with Coll: Henry Mainwaring of Karnicham in Cheshire.
Page 86 - Ferrara became and for a hundred and fifty years — from the middle of the fifteenth to the end of the sixteenth century...
Page 265 - Index to archaeologists is now recognised. Every effort is made to keep its contents up to date and continuous, but it is obvious that the difficulties are great unless the assistance of the societies is obtained. If for any reason the papers of a society are not indexed in the year to which they properly belong the plan is to include them in the following year...
Page 189 - I recommend to the earth to be buried in Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors...