The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and Other Parts Adjacent, Band 1G. Virtue, 1839 |
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... shilling per acre . In the fourth year of king Ethelred , A. D. 982 , this city was almost wholly destroyed by fire . In this disastrous reign , the city was several times assaulted by the Danes , but the assailants were always repulsed ...
... shilling per acre . In the fourth year of king Ethelred , A. D. 982 , this city was almost wholly destroyed by fire . In this disastrous reign , the city was several times assaulted by the Danes , but the assailants were always repulsed ...
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... shillings and six - pence ; a cow at two shillings ; a sheep at one shilling ; and a swine at eight- pence . Ethelred , with a policy as unwise as cowardly , sought to purchase the departure of the Danes , by presenting them with large ...
... shillings and six - pence ; a cow at two shillings ; a sheep at one shilling ; and a swine at eight- pence . Ethelred , with a policy as unwise as cowardly , sought to purchase the departure of the Danes , by presenting them with large ...
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... shillings ( I speak of the pleas which appertain to money ) ; and further , there shall be no more miskenning in the hustings , nor in the folkemote , nor in any other pleas within the city ; and the hust- ings may sit once in a week ...
... shillings ( I speak of the pleas which appertain to money ) ; and further , there shall be no more miskenning in the hustings , nor in the folkemote , nor in any other pleas within the city ; and the hust- ings may sit once in a week ...
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... shillings ; Gilda Bocheiorum , William la Feite , Alderman , one mark ; Gilda de Ponte , Thomas Cocus , Alderman , one mark ; Gilda Piperariorum , Edward Alder man , sixteen marks ; Gilda de Ponte , Alwin Fink , Alderman , fifteen marks ...
... shillings ; Gilda Bocheiorum , William la Feite , Alderman , one mark ; Gilda de Ponte , Thomas Cocus , Alderman , one mark ; Gilda Piperariorum , Edward Alder man , sixteen marks ; Gilda de Ponte , Alwin Fink , Alderman , fifteen marks ...
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... shillings and four - pence the quarter.t On the decease of king Richard I. ( A. D. 1199 ) his brother John , Earl of Moreton , succeeded to the throne , and immediately granted to the citizens of London three charters , By the first ...
... shillings and four - pence the quarter.t On the decease of king Richard I. ( A. D. 1199 ) his brother John , Earl of Moreton , succeeded to the throne , and immediately granted to the citizens of London three charters , By the first ...
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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.