London and the Kingdom: A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London, Band 2Longmans, Green & Company, 1894 |
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Seite 156 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Seite 415 - Lord, what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
Seite 244 - City * — professing sincerely from our hearts, [That] we intend not evil towards you ; declaring, with all confidence and assurance, That if you appear not against us in these our just desires, to assist that wicked Party which would embroil us and the Kingdom, neither we nor our Soldiers shall give you the least offence. We come not to do any act to prejudice the being of Parliaments, or to the hurt of this [Parliament] in order to the present Settlement of the Kingdom.
Seite 95 - I presume, was greater here ; for the citizens fled away, as out of a house on fire, and stuffed their pockets with their best ware, and threw themselves into the highways, and were not received so much as into barns, and perished so, some of them with more money about them than would have bought the village where they died.
Seite 149 - I have received therein ; for now I see, that all these former tumults, and disorders, have only risen from the meaner sort of people, and that the affections of the better and main part of the city have ever been loyal and affectionate to my person and government.
Seite 522 - I am a very old man, and have withdrawn myself from all kind of business for some years past, and am incapable of doing any service in such an affair to your majesty or the city. Besides, Sir...
Seite 579 - ... all the subjects of England had an equal right to trade to the East Indies, unless prohibited by act of parliament.
Seite 375 - Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled.
Seite 633 - Commons, which passed a resolution denouncing them as ' malicious, scandalous and seditious libels, highly reflecting upon her majesty and government, the late happy Revolution and the Protestant succession...
Seite 85 - Spanish ambassador's unreasonable demand of audience. I have not heard of more demonstrations of public joy than were here, and every where, from the highest to the lowest ; such spreading of tables in the streets with all manner of provisions, setting out whole hogsheads of wine and butts of sack, but specially such numbers of bonfires, both here and all along as he went, the marks whereof we found by the way two days afterwards, is almost incredible...