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7 Aug.

ADIEU TO THE COURT AND COURTING, 1595-1601 - topics: miscellaneous

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7 Aug. - Daybook Entries. Records a brief diary notice: I dreamed that along between Aldgate and the postern on Tower Hill did men stand in a line with pikes in their hands, as though more should come to them or that they waited for somebody: but their regard and looking was directly to the Tower, where certain...

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Records a brief diary notice: I dreamed that along between Aldgate and the postern on Tower Hill did men stand in a line with pikes in their hands, as though more should come to them or that they waited for somebody: but their regard and looking was directly to the Tower, where certain...

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ADIEU TO THE COURT AND COURTING, 1595-1601

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I dreamed that along between Aldgate and the postern on Tower Hill did men stand in a line with pikes in their hands, as though more should come to them or that they waited for somebody: but their regard and looking was directly to the Tower, where certain great personages did stand: and one of them as upon a stage did declare with a loud voice to the pikemen matter of importance very loud and earnestly.

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I dreamed that along between Aldgate and the postern on Tower Hill did men stand in a line with pikes in their hands, as though more should come to them or that they waited for somebody: but their regard and looking was directly to the Tower, where certain great personages did stand: and one of them as upon a stage did declare with a loud voice to the pikemen matter of importance very loud and earnestly.