The Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain and IrelandGeorg Olms Verlag |
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... inhabitants of the parish of St. Paul's , Covent Garden , having lately heard . that fo eminent a man as Butler had been buried in the church - yard , and regretting that neither stone nor infcription recorded the event , entered into a ...
... inhabitants of the parish of St. Paul's , Covent Garden , having lately heard . that fo eminent a man as Butler had been buried in the church - yard , and regretting that neither stone nor infcription recorded the event , entered into a ...
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... inhabitants , as better and wifer men would have ; and who would ufe that influence , for the purpose of infpiring the Planters with a fpirit of independence on their mother country . He was hoftile to the fcheme of fending Bishops to ...
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Contents
289 | 289 |
COURTEN William Naturaliſt and Collector | 334 |
Cox Richard Prelate | 396 |
414 CRAIG William Divine | 414 |
441 CRICHTON James the Admirable | 441 |
527 CROMWELL Richard Protector | 527 |
CROMWELL Henry Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | 538 |
APPENDIX | 573 |
CRUDEN Alexander Author of a Concordance to the Bible 1701 | 583 |
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