Example sentences of "of [art] king [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The left-hand foliage pendant which once hung above the west door of the King 's Drawing Room bore the brunt of the flames and only two tiny fragments of the original 7ft drop survive ; a couple of limewood crocus heads no more than an inch and a half across .
2 The memorandum of the King 's Private Secretary , Wigram , is explicit on this point .
3 Behind this exchange — which perhaps need not be taken too seriously — there lies the fear that a victory for the Labour party in a general election would constitute a repudiation of the King 's actions in August , To the extent that the National Government was formed through the agency of the King , a repudiation of the National Government could be conceived of as a repudiation of the King .
4 Chris Ham is a policy analyst at the King 's Fund Institute and a Fellow of the King 's Fund College .
5 By Edward VI he was made ‘ Vice Admiral of the King 's ships in the West Seas ’ , and his remains lie in the nearby church of Stratton , where a brass plate depicts the knight , his wife and their twelve children .
6 ‘ At Sedgebrook , ’ wrote Willingham Franklin Rawnsley , ‘ is a farmhouse which was built as a manor house by Sir John Markham when he was Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench .
7 The writs , i.e. the King 's commands that a person shall appear in one of the King 's Courts in answer to a claim , are issued in his name , as they still are today , and are issued from his office .
8 These petitions in practice were referred to the Chancellor , who was the chief minister and secretary and the most learned member of the King 's Council .
9 He is commonly spoken of as the keeper of the King 's conscience .
10 The most likely explanation is that she intended some disruption of the race and , having ducked under the rails , found herself the beneficiary of the sheer coincidence of the King 's horse — whose colours she would have recognized — being isolated from the other runners .
11 For example , the silver pennies made with identical designs under King Edward I and II can be subdivided by the form of the king 's name or the shape of the crown he wears ( fig. 3 ) .
12 These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) .
13 In each case , the faction which gained control of the king 's person gained control of government .
14 A petition to the King and Council , dated between 1297 and 1308 , stated that ‘ the men of Easingwold and Huby are of the king 's ancient demesne … in the forest of Galtres ’ .
15 The Forest revenues were an important part of the king 's income .
16 He might have the custody of a single royal forest , or of a group of forests : the ‘ Warden of the King 's forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges ’ kept the forests of Shotover , Bernwood , Whittlewood , Salcey , Rockingham and Huntingdon , in the counties of Oxford , Northampton , Buckingham and Huntingdon .
17 Among the dozen or so ‘ King 's yeomen ’ and ‘ King 's serjeants ’ appointed to Forest wardenships were Robert of Stopham , one of the king 's huntsmen , who became warden of the forests of Clarendon and Groveley 1249–59 , and Master Walter of Durham , ‘ the King 's serjeant and painter ’ , appointed in 1271 to keep the forest of Galtres , along with John of York , another royal serjeant .
18 Geoffrey Giffard , for example , the curialist Bishop of Worcester , was in October 1270 appointed to keep the royal forest and manor of Feckenham for a term of five years , and Ebulo de Montibus , a Steward of the King 's Household , held the offices of constable and warden of Windsor castle and forest from 1266 until his death in 1268 .
19 It was laid down by a judgement of the King 's Court in 1205 that ‘ No one ought or is able to divide up or in any way to alienate a serjeanty ’ .
20 Great lay and ecclesiastical magnates , important officers of the king 's court and household , busy judges , women of high rank — all appointed deputy wardens to keep the forests on their behalf .
21 On occasion he took measures for the safety of the king 's subjects travelling through the forest .
22 In the same way the perquisites of the hereditary wardens of Cannock Forest included all the herbage of the king 's hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , except during the fence month and the pannage season .
23 In 1222 it was reported to the Council of Regency that Thomas of Milton , hereditary warden of Inglewood Forest , had under him twelve riding foresters with their underforesters , who were maintained at the expense of the Crown and the men of the king 's demesnes .
24 In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ .
25 The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit …
26 He thus unjustly extorted a great sum of money from the men of the bailiwick , not being content with any mode of lawing , saying , if the right leg was lawed , the left leg ought to be lawed , and vice versa , and if all the feet were lawed , saying falsely that this was against the assize and the tenor of the king 's Charter .
27 The woods kept by the woodwards were as a general rule also subject to the authority of the king 's foresters ; if the latter discovered a Forest offence there which had not been reported by the woodward , the wood was seized and the woodward attached to answer for his default .
28 and to permit them to carry bows and arrows for the defence of themselves and their custody , as is the custom of the King 's foresters , and the foresters of others elsewhere in England .
29 being put on assizes , juries or recognitions , and from being made sheriff , justice of gaol delivery , Steward of the Forest , forester , vendor of the King 's wood , escheator , coroner , verderer , regarder , agister , or one of the knights to elect the grand assize .
30 The verderers also co-operated with the foresters in supervising the exercise of customary rights within the forest , such as taking wood for fuel , fencing and house-repair ; in making arrangements at the swanimote for the agistment of the king 's demesne woods ; and in carrying out various inquiries in the forest into such matters as the rights of the Crown and the perquisites of the Forest officers .
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