London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1Richard Bentley, 1850 |
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... derives its interest . Here , at a cutler's stall , the assassin Felton purchased the knife which cut short the life of the mighty Buckingham ; and here , at the sign of " the Bull , " died , in extreme poverty , the unfortunate ...
... derives its interest . Here , at a cutler's stall , the assassin Felton purchased the knife which cut short the life of the mighty Buckingham ; and here , at the sign of " the Bull , " died , in extreme poverty , the unfortunate ...
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... derives its name from " all Hallows , " or all Saints , and from the manor of Barking , in Essex ; the vicarage hav- ing originally belonged to the abbess and convent of that place . The date of its foundation is not known . We learn ...
... derives its name from " all Hallows , " or all Saints , and from the manor of Barking , in Essex ; the vicarage hav- ing originally belonged to the abbess and convent of that place . The date of its foundation is not known . We learn ...
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... derives its name from one Goodman , who had a farm here in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . Stow , who was born as late as 1525 , remembered this now densely populated district while it was still open country , and when some of the ...
... derives its name from one Goodman , who had a farm here in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . Stow , who was born as late as 1525 , remembered this now densely populated district while it was still open country , and when some of the ...
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... ancient village of Ratcliffe Highway , which Camden de- scribes as " a little town , wherein lived many sailors , " and which derives its name from a red VOL . I. C cliff which was formerly visible here . " From hence EAST SMITHFIELD . 17.
... ancient village of Ratcliffe Highway , which Camden de- scribes as " a little town , wherein lived many sailors , " and which derives its name from a red VOL . I. C cliff which was formerly visible here . " From hence EAST SMITHFIELD . 17.
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... derives its name from the Saxon manor of Stebenhythe , or Stebunhethe . Stepney was a village , and had its church , as far back as the days of the Saxons , and in the time of Elizabeth was the most eastern part of Lon- don . In the ...
... derives its name from the Saxon manor of Stebenhythe , or Stebunhethe . Stepney was a village , and had its church , as far back as the days of the Saxons , and in the time of Elizabeth was the most eastern part of Lon- don . In the ...
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London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 1 John Heneage Jesse Volledige weergave - 1850 |
London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 1 John Heneage Jesse Volledige weergave - 1850 |
London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 1 John Heneage Jesse Volledige weergave - 1850 |
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Pagina 345 - For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Pagina 131 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another.
Pagina 389 - Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames , and statesmen old In bearded majesty , appear.
Pagina 128 - Church, to which the scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
Pagina 135 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little alehouse on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow, and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Pagina 320 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Pagina 132 - So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw ; and that, unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down, nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way.
Pagina 138 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Pagina 130 - Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
Pagina 245 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.