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The Dunstable Swan Jewel, modelled fully in the round in enamelled gold, is a far more exclusive version, that would have been given to someone very close or important to the donor.
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File: British_Museum_-Dunstable_Swan_Jewel_-side_cropped_close. jpg | The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge in ronde bosse enamel, about 1400.
Badges were popular as jewellery in the Middle Ages, and varied from extremely expensive works of jewellery, like the Dunstable Swan Jewel, to simple mold-made badges in lead or other base metals.
The livery badges worn by both Richard and the angels appear to be made in the fashionable and expensive technique of ronde bosse white enamel on gold ; they are comparable to the surviving Dunstable Swan Jewel, probably given by one of Richard's cousins in the House of Lancaster.
The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge in ronde bosse enamel, about 1400.
* Swan, a badge of many Lancastrian figures — see Dunstable Swan Jewel
They could be made of base metal, cloth or other materials and worn on the clothing of the followers of the person in question ; grander forms would be worn by important persons, with the Dunstable Swan Jewel in enamelled gold a rare survivor.
The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge of about 1400, perhaps of Henry V of England | Henry V as Prince of Wales.
A lavish badge like the Dunstable Swan Jewel would only have been worn by the person whose device was represented, members of his family or important supporters, and possibly servants who were in regular very close contact with him.
A swan was also used by several Princes of Wales, as in the Dunstable Swan Jewel.
* Stratford, Jenny, The swan badge and the Dunstable Swan, and other pages as specified, in Richard II's Treasure ; the riches of a medieval king, website by The Institute of Historical Research and Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007
The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge, about 1400 ( British Museum )
Dunstable and round
He was brought up in Dunstable, and " treated and raised to be as stubborn and independent as anyone else round about.
Dunstable and is
* The earliest recorded miracle play is performed in Dunstable, England.
Dunstable ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
It is likely named after the town of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, home of Edward Tyng, the town's first settler.
Dunstable is bordered by Pepperell to the west, Groton to the south, Tyngsborough to the east, and Nashua and Hollis, New Hampshire, to the north.
This is also the site for the annual auto show in Dunstable.
* The Dunstable Evangelical Congregational Church ( DECC ) is located at 518 Main Street, adjacent to the Town Commons and directly across from Town Hall.
Because it is the only church in town, it is often called simply " the Dunstable Church ".
* The Dunstable Free Library is located at 588 Main Street.
Tyngsborough is bordered by the towns of Dunstable, Groton, Westford, Chelmsford, and Dracut, by the city of Lowell, and by the New Hampshire communities of Hudson, Pelham, and Nashua.
Additionally, Tyngsborough is home to Greater Lowell Technical High School, a public vocational school which serves the towns of Tyngsborough, Dracut, and Dunstable as well as the city of Lowell.
Fifth Business is narrated by Dunstable ( later Dunstan ) Ramsay, a male schoolteacher who grows up in Deptford, a fictional town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
The other marriage is that of the outspoken heiress, Martha Dunstable, to Doctor Thorne, the eponymous hero of the preceding novel in the series.
The Icknield Way is depicted by a straight line from Salisbury to Bury St Edmunds which intersects the other three roads near Dunstable.
To the east of Ivinghoe Beacon is Dunstable Downs, a steep section of the Chiltern scarp.
The spelling " Dunstaple " is preferred by Margaret Bent, since it occurs in more than twice as many musical attributions as that of " Dunstable ".
First the Dunstable Branch of the Great Northern Railway passed through the Batford area with a station later named Harpenden East railway station ( this line is now closed and forms a cycle track ).
Leighton Buzzard is expanding eastwards: 2500-4500 homes including 35 % affordable housing are planned for east Leighton Buzzard for the Luton / Dunstable / Houghton Regis growth area and 900 homes including 35 % affordable housing are being considered west of Linslade.
1. The story of Dunstan ( then called Dunstable ) Ramsay ’ s life begins in 1908 when Ramsay is 10 years old.
One night the townspeople paint their faces black and riot outside of the Dempster home, and Dunstable is disgusted that Amasa does not go out to face them.
Dunstable resumes his visits with Mary and Paul by sneaking in through her window while Amasa is out.
Over the next year Dunstable is ostracized at school but finds comfort and company in books.
In the autumn of 1914 war breaks out across the world, but Dunstable is more concerned with his older brother Willie ’ s illness.
Dunstable has to stay at his brother ’ s side while the rest of the town is at the Fall Fair, and during this sitting Willie dies.
Dunstable is convinced that he has seen a miracle, but the doctor dismisses the possibility that Willie was ever dead, and Mrs. Ramsay is upset that the whore Mary Dempster is in her home.
Dunstable and more
* In 1773, Hollis acquired some more land from Dunstable in a dispute over the building and upkeep of a bridge over the Nashua River.
Dunstable and version
In late 2007 and early 2008, Blessed starred in the panto version of Peter Pan as Captain Hook at the Grove Theatre in Dunstable.
The present Dunstable Town crest is simply a recoloured version of the coat of arms for the Town of Dunstable.
Dunstable and would
One candidate is the Dunstable Priory clock in Bedfordshire, England built in 1283, because accounts say it was installed above the rood screen, where it would be difficult to replenish the water needed for a water clock.
Dunstable and have
The entire journey from The City of Destruction to the Celestial City may have been based on Bunyan's own usual journey from Bedford, on the main road that runs less than a mile behind his Elstow cottage, through Ampthill, Dunstable and St Albans, to London.
" Chalk hills, stretching fifty miles from the Thames to Dunstable Downs, have beautiful blue flowers and butterflies, with glorious beech trees.
The three garages, Walkers & Hardings in the High Street, Bylands on Dunstable Road and Stathams at Church End, have all closed leaving only a filling station next to The Chequers pub on the St Albans Road.
Dunstable Town have always been associated with Royal Blue and White, in a number of combinations.
Unlike some of the larger clubs who hold an identity with one particular pattern, Dunstable have had stripes, hoops, halves, quarters, pin stripe and plain shirts.
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