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... commanded the ninth legion , marched to the relief of the place . The Britons , flushed with success , advanced to give him battle . The legion was put to the rout , and the infantry cut to pieces . Cerealis escaped with the cavalry to ...
... commanded the ninth legion , marched to the relief of the place . The Britons , flushed with success , advanced to give him battle . The legion was put to the rout , and the infantry cut to pieces . Cerealis escaped with the cavalry to ...
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... commanded that he shoulde be hanged , which was done : and the citie be- came more quiet . ' In 1176 , the building of a new bridge of stone was commenced at London , at a short distance westward from the wooden bridge ; yet it was not ...
... commanded that he shoulde be hanged , which was done : and the citie be- came more quiet . ' In 1176 , the building of a new bridge of stone was commenced at London , at a short distance westward from the wooden bridge ; yet it was not ...
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... commanded them to be put to death ; and , under this impression , the unruely people fall- ing uppon the Jewes with staves , battes , and stones , beate them to their houses , and after assayling them therein , sette them on fire and ...
... commanded them to be put to death ; and , under this impression , the unruely people fall- ing uppon the Jewes with staves , battes , and stones , beate them to their houses , and after assayling them therein , sette them on fire and ...
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... commanded , that all wares [ wears ] that are in the Thames be moved , wheresoever they shall be within the Thames : and that no wares be put any where within the Thames ; also , we have clearly quit - claimed all that , which the ...
... commanded , that all wares [ wears ] that are in the Thames be moved , wheresoever they shall be within the Thames : and that no wares be put any where within the Thames ; also , we have clearly quit - claimed all that , which the ...
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... commanded to provide measures , gallons , iron rods , and weights , for standards , to be sent to the several counties of England . * At the same time , so great a famine happened , that wheat was sold at eighteen shillings and four ...
... commanded to provide measures , gallons , iron rods , and weights , for standards , to be sent to the several counties of England . * At the same time , so great a famine happened , that wheat was sold at eighteen shillings and four ...
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Seite 420 - 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 ruine. So home with a sad heart...
Seite 418 - 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 413 - 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...
Seite 417 - ... ready to perish for hunger and destitution, yet not asking one penny for relief, which to me appeared a stranger sight than any I had yet beheld.
Seite 419 - Soon as dined, I and Moone away, and walked through the city ; the streets full of nothing but people, and horses and carts loaden with goods, ready to run over one another, and removing goods from one burned house to another.
Seite 417 - His majesty and council indeede tooke all imaginable care for their reliefe by proclamation for the country to come in and refresh them with provisions. In the midst of all this calamity and confusion, there was, I know not how, an alarme begun, that the French...
Seite 419 - Bridge at the waterside; but little was or could be done, the fire coming upon them so fast. Good hopes there was of stopping it at the Three Cranes above, and at Buttulph's Wharf below Bridge, if care be used ; but the wind carries it into the City, so as we know not, by the waterside, what it do there.
Seite 424 - ... the streets, but I went with the men, and we did put it out in a little time; so that that was well again. It was pretty to see how hard the women did work in the cannells, sweeping of water; but then they would scold for drink, and be as drunk as devils.
Seite 413 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches...
Seite 415 - In this calamitous condition I returned with a sad heart to my house, blessing and adoring the mercy of God to me and mine, who in the midst of all this ruin was like Lot, in my little Zoar, safe and sound.