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John le Neve : Monumenta Anglicana: Inscriptions on the Monuments of Eminent Persons deceased from 1700 to 1715

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790, 'at night': 'While I write, Mr. Lysons has been turning over Le Neve's "Monumenta Anglicana," and has found that [italics]nine[end italics] aldermen of London died in one year. I concluded that it must have been in one of the years of the Plague. No, it was in 1711.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Lysons      Print: Book

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