The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-makings, Antiquities and Novelties on the Plan of the Every-day Book and Table Book ...T. Tegg, 1832 - 1643 pages |
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Page 25
... Charles II . play at the groom - porter's on Twelfth Night , 1662 . He speaks of the excess with reprobation . For his observations , and an account of the office of groom - porter , see further on , in this month . PRINCE OF MISRULE ...
... Charles II . play at the groom - porter's on Twelfth Night , 1662 . He speaks of the excess with reprobation . For his observations , and an account of the office of groom - porter , see further on , in this month . PRINCE OF MISRULE ...
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... Charles II . took his pleasure in seeing the holiday pastimes of the lawyers . Mr. Pepys says of himself , in his diary , that while he was at Farthorne's the fine en- graver of old English portraits , whither he had gone to buy some ...
... Charles II . took his pleasure in seeing the holiday pastimes of the lawyers . Mr. Pepys says of himself , in his diary , that while he was at Farthorne's the fine en- graver of old English portraits , whither he had gone to buy some ...
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... ( Charles II . ) play at tennis . But , " says Pepys , " to see how the king's play was extolled , without any cause at all , was a loathsome sight ; though some- times , indeed , he did play very well , and deserved to be commended ; but ...
... ( Charles II . ) play at tennis . But , " says Pepys , " to see how the king's play was extolled , without any cause at all , was a loathsome sight ; though some- times , indeed , he did play very well , and deserved to be commended ; but ...
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... ( Charles II . ) opened the revels of that night by throwing the dice himself in the privy chamber , where was a table set on purpose , and lost his £ 100 ( the year before he won £ 1500 ) . The ladies also played very deep . I came away ...
... ( Charles II . ) opened the revels of that night by throwing the dice himself in the privy chamber , where was a table set on purpose , and lost his £ 100 ( the year before he won £ 1500 ) . The ladies also played very deep . I came away ...
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... Charles I. he defended in the house of commons the king's concessions to ... Charles's . " This from any other man had been hazardous even at that time ... II . dignified him with the title of " the Cato of the Age . " At the ...
... Charles I. he defended in the house of commons the king's concessions to ... Charles's . " This from any other man had been hazardous even at that time ... II . dignified him with the title of " the Cato of the Age . " At the ...
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