Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including Characteristic Sketches, Antiquarian, Topographical, Descriptive, and Literary, Band 1Hurst, Chance, and Company, 1829 |
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... King Lud ... Arguments to prove it a British City ... Error of Ptolemy and Dr. Gale in placing Londinium on the south side of the Thames ... Embankment of the River Thames by the Romans . Etymology of the name of London • Origin of the ...
... King Lud ... Arguments to prove it a British City ... Error of Ptolemy and Dr. Gale in placing Londinium on the south side of the Thames ... Embankment of the River Thames by the Romans . Etymology of the name of London • Origin of the ...
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... King Henry VI . 203-206 Birth and Character of Henry VI .... His decease in the Tower , and interment at Chertsey ... Removal of his body to Windsor ... Reputed sanctity , and purposed canonization . Bermondsey Abbey , Southwark 206-209 ...
... King Henry VI . 203-206 Birth and Character of Henry VI .... His decease in the Tower , and interment at Chertsey ... Removal of his body to Windsor ... Reputed sanctity , and purposed canonization . Bermondsey Abbey , Southwark 206-209 ...
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... King Richard's history ... Diver- sity of accounts as to the manner of his death ... Description of his Monument ... Curious Paintings . Ely House , Holborn • 223-231 Ely House , the town mansion of the Bishops of Ely ... Erection of ...
... King Richard's history ... Diver- sity of accounts as to the manner of his death ... Description of his Monument ... Curious Paintings . Ely House , Holborn • 223-231 Ely House , the town mansion of the Bishops of Ely ... Erection of ...
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... King Canute to the Cathedral at Canterbury . The Game of Chess - London Professors 266-272 Remote antiquity of the Game of Chess ... Its intro- duction into England ... Poetical description of the Game by Nicholas Breton ...
... King Canute to the Cathedral at Canterbury . The Game of Chess - London Professors 266-272 Remote antiquity of the Game of Chess ... Its intro- duction into England ... Poetical description of the Game by Nicholas Breton ...
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... King Henry the Eighth's Jester • 238 St. Paul's Cross Goldsmiths ' Hall • • 244 · 276 V Skinners ' Hall 291 * It should have been stated , in the account of Bermondsey Abbey , that the old Gateway , shewn in the Print , was wholly ...
... King Henry the Eighth's Jester • 238 St. Paul's Cross Goldsmiths ' Hall • • 244 · 276 V Skinners ' Hall 291 * It should have been stated , in the account of Bermondsey Abbey , that the old Gateway , shewn in the Print , was wholly ...
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Seite 159 - ... last night to get things ready against our feast today, Jane called us up about three in the morning to tell us of a great fire they saw in the city.
Seite 151 - ... 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...
Seite 163 - We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. The churches, houses, and all on fire, and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their mine. So home with a sad heart...
Seite 162 - Stokes, receiving some friend's goods, whose house itself was burned the day after. We parted at Paul's; he home, and I to Paul's Wharf, where I had appointed a boat to attend me, and took in Mr. Carcasse and his brother, whom I met in the street, and carried them below and above bridge too.
Seite 155 - Cornhill, etc., with extraordinary difficulty, clambering over heaps of yet smoking rubbish, and frequently mistaking where I was. The ground under my feet so hot that it even burnt the soles of my shoes.
Seite 160 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river, or bringing them into lighters...
Seite 168 - ... there good hopes of saving our office ; but great endeavours of watching all night, and having men ready; and so we lodged them in the office, and had drink and bread and cheese for them. And I lay down and slept a good night about midnight, though when I rose I heard that there had been a great alarme of French and Dutch being risen, which proved nothing.
Seite 161 - 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.
Seite 225 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Seite 161 - That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home; seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch and tar, in Thames Street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy, and other things.