Its rich, admiring evocations of Jacobean times sound repetitive after a while, even as Mr. Nicolson admires the lusciousness of the era.

This was extended in Tudor and Jacobean times to form a rambling manor house of considerable size.

Another explanation is it is a market cross from Jacobean or Georgian times but Affetside had no market charter though markets did exist without one.

The Angel had, from Jacobean times (1603), been a coaching inn and it had been rebuilt a number of times before Lyons acquired the property in 1921.

This was destroyed by fire in 1543, and some of its smoke-blackened corner stones were used when, in Jacobean times, a brick country house rose upon the ruins of the feudal castle.

Since 1929, the Old House has been a museum presenting life in Jacobean times.

Chamberlain's letters provide a portrait of a typical London gentleman of late Elizabethan and Jacobean times, moderate in politics and religion.

"I've not set it in Jacobean times," Elliott explains in her soft Mancunian lilt.

The house was old, built in Jacobean times, with heavy hand-carved beams and mullioned windows.

The fortified house was gradually expanded during Tudor and Jacobean times to become an extensive manor house.