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He went to tell the old, shivering Chancellor of the Augmentations that he must absent himself upon their common master's errands.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox

He was appointed, in 1537, Clerk to the Court of Augmentations.

From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.

The hitherto silent men laid back their heads to laugh, and the Chancellor of the Augmentations suddenly rubbed his palms together, hissing like an ostler.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox

Cromwell turned upon the Chancellor of the Augmentations who stood in the shadow of the tall mantelpiece.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox

The Margrave made considerable Augmentations to this House, and render'd it very commodious.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von