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" It was common with him," we are told, "at an ordinary dancing, to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to have diamond hatbands, cockades, and earrings ; to be yoked with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl ; in short, to be... "
The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh from His Birth to His Death on the Scaffold ... - Page 309
by William Oldys - 1740 - 576 pages
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of James I ...

William Harris - Great Britain - 1772 - 292 pages
...dancing to have his cloaths trimmed i°6, ' P' " w'1h greac diamond buttons, and to have diamond t* hat-bands, cockades and earrings; to be yoked with...of pearl; in fhort " to be manacled, fettered and imprifoned in jewels ; in" fomuch that at his going over to Paris, in 1625, he " had 27 fuits of cloaths...
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge

1783 - 800 pages
...at common dancings, in cluatbt trimmed with great diamond buttons, with diamond hatband*, cockide*, and earrings : to be yoked " with great and manifold ropes and knots of jewels ; in Ihi.rt to be manacled, fettered, and imprifoncH in jewels." — At his going over to Pant...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 1

William Harris - 1814 - 458 pages
...pounds d. I do not think this account of his jewels, beyond the truth. " For it was common with him at an ordinary dancing to have his cloaths trimmed...with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl ; in short to be manacled, fettered and imprisoned in jewels ; insomuch that at his going over to Paris,...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of ..., Volume 1

William Harris - 1814 - 470 pages
...his jewels, beyond the truth. " For it was common with him at an ordinary dancing to have his deaths trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to 'have diamond...great and manifold ropes and knots of •pearl; in short to be manacled, fettered and imprisoned •in jewels ; insomuch that at his going over to Paris;...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

English literature - 1840 - 592 pages
...ordinary dancing, to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to have diamond hathands, cockades, and earrings, to be yoked with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl ; in short, to be manacled, fettered, and imprisoned in jewels : insomuch that at his going to Paris, in...
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Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...of the monarch. "It was common with him," says a writer, "at an ordinary dancing to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to have diamond...with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl; in short, to be manacled, fettered and imprisoned in jewels : insomuch that at his going to Paris in 1625...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 3

Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...with him," (says the writer who affords us the account,) " at an ordinary dancing, to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to have diamond...hatbands, cockades, and ear-rings ; to be yoked with manifold ropes and knots of pearls ; in short, to be manacled, fettered, and imprisoned in jewels;...
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The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by ...

Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 710 pages
...ordinary dancing, to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to have diamond hathands, cockades, and earrings; to be yoked with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl ; in short, to be manacled, fettered, and imprisoned in jewels ; insomuch, that, " at his going over to...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 3

Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...was common with him," says Oldys in his Life of Raleigh, " at an ordinary dancing to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to have diamond...with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl ; in short, to be manacled, fettered, and imprisoned in jewels ; insomuch, that at his going to Paris, in...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 526 pages
...thousand pounds. " It was common with him," we are told, " at an ordinary dancing, to have his clothes trimmed with great diamond buttons, and to have diamond...with great and manifold ropes and knots of pearl ; in short, to be manacled, fettered, and imprisoned in jewels ; insomuch, that at his going over to Paris,...
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