 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1836 - 626 pages
...Hall, — of which Matthew Paris thus speaks under the date 1099. — ' In the same year, King William, on returning from Normandy into England, held for...grievous exactions of William Rufus (under the year 1097), says, " the kynge filled the spiritualtie and temporaltie with unreasonable taskys, • Matt.... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...of the year 1099, says : — " In the same year, King William, returning to England from Normandy, held for the first time his court in the New Hall...comparison with the building which he intended to make.' " Another old writer, speaking of the same monarch, says : — "The kynge filled the spiritualtie and... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...at Westminster. Having entered to inspect it, with a large military retinue, some persons remarking that it was too large, and larger than it should have...comparison with the building which he intended to make." This same year, according to Stow, William Rufus kept his Wrhitsuntide in the Palace of Westminster,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1866 - 800 pages
...Some person remarked that it was too large— larger than it should havo been. The king replied, ' that it was only a bedchamber in comparison with the building which he intended to make.' Rufue, no doubt, would have used the new clock tower as an eight-day clock, and the York and Nelson... | |
 | Mark Lemon - London (England) - 1867 - 368 pages
...Some person remarked that it was too large — larger than it should have been. The king replied, " that it was only a bedchamber in comparison with the building which he intended to make." Rufus, no doubt, would have used the new clock tower as an eight-day clock, and the York and Nelson... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1874 - 376 pages
...at Westminster. Having entered to inspect it, with a large military retinue, some persons remarking that it was too large, and larger than it should have...comparison with the building which he intended to make." This same year, according to Stow, William Rufus kept his Whitsuntide in the Palace of Westminster,... | |
 | harper's monthly magazine - 1884 - 992 pages
...Some of them exclaimed that "it was too large; larger than it should have been." But the king declared that "it was not half so large as it should have been,...only a bedchamber in comparison with the building he intended to make." Before we go on, the reader must form an idea of how this remarkable edifice... | |
 | Literature - 1884 - 990 pages
...Some of them exclaimed that "it was too large; larger than it should have been." But the king declared that "it was not half so large as it should have been,...only a bedchamber in comparison with the building he intended to make." Before we go on, the reader must form an idea of how this remarkable edifice... | |
 | Literature - 1884 - 1082 pages
...Some of them exclaimed that "iUwas too large; larger than it should have been." But the king declared that "it was not half so large as it should have been,...only a bedchamber in comparison with the building he intended to make." Before we go on, the reader must form an idea of how this remarkable edifice... | |
 | 1356 pages
...Some of them exclaimed that "it was too large; larger than it should have boon." But the king declared that " it was not half so large as it should have...only a bedchamber in comparison with the building he intended to make." Before we go on, the reader must form an idea of how this remarkable edifice... | |
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... it was not half so large as it should have been,' and that it was only a bedchamber in comparison with the building which he intended to make. 
