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one for herself and another for her women each with a coachman and four horses, with carriages and carts for her things; twenty new gowns yearly; new furnishings in their houses including couches and canopies for her drawing chambers; he should finish building
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Afterward, my Lord
Compton descended from his sheepcote and mounted himself on a lofty steed, his men also attending him on horseback, every one wearing a hat of straw and their faces painted as black as the
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identifies this performance as a revival of
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episode, "Secrets of the
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He builded himself a bower upon the top of the wall next to
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Lawrence Stone, 'The Peer and the
Alderman's daughter',
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Arms of Sir
William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton, KG
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308:of Lord Compton's armour for a 2017
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