Temple bar, or, Some account of 'ye Marygold', no.1, Fleet streetTaylor & Francis, 1875 - 58 Seiten The story of Child's bank. |
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... appears to have originated in the sign of a tavern ; at any rate it was first mentioned with reference to a tavern , as may be gathered from the following paragraph , extracted from Beaufoy's Tokens , ' p . 75 : - " The Banking - house ...
... appears to have originated in the sign of a tavern ; at any rate it was first mentioned with reference to a tavern , as may be gathered from the following paragraph , extracted from Beaufoy's Tokens , ' p . 75 : - " The Banking - house ...
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... appears to date back to the latter part of the 16th century . We must dispel the idea which has been cherished by many , that the old kitchen and the house above it ever belonged to the Devil Tavern , but hold that it was a part and ...
... appears to date back to the latter part of the 16th century . We must dispel the idea which has been cherished by many , that the old kitchen and the house above it ever belonged to the Devil Tavern , but hold that it was a part and ...
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... appears to have carried on the goldsmith's business by himself , Francis Child being then too young . The following occurs in an old ledger on the 12th January 1663 , showing that the business was in the sole name of Robert Blanchard ...
... appears to have carried on the goldsmith's business by himself , Francis Child being then too young . The following occurs in an old ledger on the 12th January 1663 , showing that the business was in the sole name of Robert Blanchard ...
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... appears to have * His name first appears on the 23rd of July , 1681 , when he opened his account . been a cousin of Sir Francis Child , as his 18.
... appears to have * His name first appears on the 23rd of July , 1681 , when he opened his account . been a cousin of Sir Francis Child , as his 18.
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... appear in the various accounts in the early ledgers , or posting - books as they were then called ; for instance , in ... appears in the Earl of Exeter's account in 1678 ; only he has two ! and 1686 , in the Duke of Beaufort's account ...
... appear in the various accounts in the early ledgers , or posting - books as they were then called ; for instance , in ... appears in the Earl of Exeter's account in 1678 ; only he has two ! and 1686 , in the Duke of Beaufort's account ...
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Temple Bar: Or Some Account of Ye Marygold, No. 1, Fleet Street Frederick George Hilton Price Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Agatha Child amongst Apollo Assignemts Assignes respectively Backwell his heires Backwell's Bank bankers banking-house Barneby Backwell Ben Jonson Bill Blanchard and Child Child & Co Child's Bank Countess of Jersey daughter Devil Tavern died Duke Earl of Jersey Edward Backwell Eight pence Excheq executors Fane ffifty nine pounds Fleet Street George Addison goldsmith's trade goldsmiths heires or Assignes hereby high Trear hundred ffifty nine John Fludd John Keysall John Rogers John Wormald Jonson Lady London Lord Mayor Lord Westmorland married mencõned Messrs Nell Gwyn nine pounds thirteene old ledger Osterley Park payd Pepys pounds thirteene shillings rent or sum Robert Blanchard Robert Child Robert Dent Samuel Child Seaven hundred ffifty Seaventeene thousand Seaven shillings & Eight shillings and Eight Sir Francis Child succ's Sucers sum of Seaventeene Temple Bar thereof Thomas Devon thousand Seaven hundred Villiers William Backwell William Wheeler Willis yearly rent yearly sum
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Seite 11 - Welcome all who lead or follow, To the oracle of Apollo — Here he speaks out of his pottle, Or the tripos, his Tower bottle ; All his answers are divine, Truth itself doth flow in wine. Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers, Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers ; He the half of life abuses, That sits watering with the Muses.
Seite 37 - It is payable at twenty days — when the days are out, we will pay you;" and those that are not so, they make tell over their money, and make their bags false, on purpose to give cause to retell it, and so spend time.
Seite 11 - Here he speaks out of his pottle, Or the tripos, his tower bottle: All his answers are divine. Truth itself doth flow in wine. Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers, Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers; He the half of life abuses. That sits watering with the Muses. Those dull girls no good can mean us; Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it, and you all are mounted. 'Tis the true Phoebian liquor, Cheers the brains, makes wit the quicker.
Seite 28 - CHARLES R. Our Will and pleasure is that you forthwith prepare a Bill for Our Royall Signature to pass Our great Seale in these words or to this effect.
Seite 28 - ... Revenue and otherwise, And although the present Posture of Our affaires cannot reasonably spare so greate a sum as must be applyed to the satisfaction of those debts, Yet considering the great difficulty which very many of our Loving Subjects (who putt their moneys into the hands of those Goldsmiths and others from whom we received it) doe at present Lye under, almost to their utter ruine for want of their said moneys, We have rather chose out of our princely care and compassion towards Our people,...
Seite 15 - ... firm ; but we think it worth mentioning as we have no reason for doubting it, as these and others are mostly founded to a certain degree on facts. Sir Francis Child, Knt., Goldsmith, was elected Alderman of Farringdon Ward Without on the 22nd of October, 1689, Sheriff in 1690, and Lord Mayor in 1699. He was President of Christ's Hospital in 1702. In 1705 he rebuilt the ward over the east cloister, and upon a tablet in front of the building is inscribed : — " Anno 1705. This ward was rebuilt...
Seite 5 - Holborn, Smithfield, and Whitechapel bars. Afterwards there was a house of timber erected across the street, with a narrow gateway and an entry on the south side of it under the house.
Seite 11 - Tatler' (No. 79) they are described as being ' in gold letters.' And this account agrees with the rules themselves — in gold letters upon board — still preserved in the banking-house of the Messrs. Child, where I had the pleasure of seeing them in 1843, with another and equally interesting relic of the Devil Tavern, the bust of Apollo. Over the door of the entrance to the Apollo the following verses were placed, which were written by Ben Jonson. Beneath these verses is the name of the author...
Seite 21 - The inside, which is fitted up with taste and magnificence, was finished by the late Robert Child, Esq. who succeeded to his brother Francis's estates in 1763. The stair-case is ornamented with a fine painting, by Rubens. of the apotheosis of William the First, Prince of Orange, brought from Holland by Sir Francis Child. The most remarkable of the rooms are, a noble gallery 130 feet in length, containing a good collection of pictures by the old masters, and some valuable portraits ; the state bed-room,...
Seite 37 - They are so called upon for money that they will be all broke, hundreds coming to them for money : and they answer him, ' It is payable at twenty days — when the days are out, we will pay you :' and those that are not so, they make tell...