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A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.

Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth.

The chronicle of Calais, in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. To the year 1540. [By R. Turpyn?] Ed. from MSS. in the British Museum / by John Gough Nichols.

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A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.

The chronicle of Calais, in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. To the year 1540. [By R. Turpyn?] Ed. from MSS. in the British Museum / by John Gough Nichols.

Calais gate: the Host is administered to sick people, while emaciated and ragged French people go about their business. Etching by C. Mosley after W. Hogarth.