Memoirs of the City of London and Its Celebrities, Band 1L.C. Page, 1902 |
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... building , erected in 1831 , close to the north approach of London Bridge . The famous Lord Mayor of London , Sir William Wal- worth , who killed Wat Tyler at Smithfield , was a member of this company , his statue being still a ...
... building , erected in 1831 , close to the north approach of London Bridge . The famous Lord Mayor of London , Sir William Wal- worth , who killed Wat Tyler at Smithfield , was a member of this company , his statue being still a ...
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... building have been taken down and rebuilt , the old portions , namely , the tower and the west end , having been restored with brick . Little , indeed , of Wren's work now remains , nor does that little add much to his reputation as an ...
... building have been taken down and rebuilt , the old portions , namely , the tower and the west end , having been restored with brick . Little , indeed , of Wren's work now remains , nor does that little add much to his reputation as an ...
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... buildings being erected at the Bank in 1803 , Walbrook might be still seen among the foundations , pursuing its trickling course toward the Thames . A little beyond Dowgate is Three Cranes Lane , leading to the ancient Three Cranes ...
... buildings being erected at the Bank in 1803 , Walbrook might be still seen among the foundations , pursuing its trickling course toward the Thames . A little beyond Dowgate is Three Cranes Lane , leading to the ancient Three Cranes ...
Seite 78
... find Sir Francis Bryan receiving a grant of the prior's lodging and the hall . Within a few years the greater remaining portion of the buildings was - swept away , and many fair mansions and gardens 78 LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES .
... find Sir Francis Bryan receiving a grant of the prior's lodging and the hall . Within a few years the greater remaining portion of the buildings was - swept away , and many fair mansions and gardens 78 LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES .
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... building , known in the reign of George the First as the Red Lion Tavern , was unquestion- ably of great antiquity . Its dark closets , its trap- doors , its sliding panels , and its secret recesses and hiding - places , rendered it no ...
... building , known in the reign of George the First as the Red Lion Tavern , was unquestion- ably of great antiquity . Its dark closets , its trap- doors , its sliding panels , and its secret recesses and hiding - places , rendered it no ...
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according to Stow afterward Aldersgate Street Aldgate Alley ancient appears Baynard's Castle Bishop Bishopsgate Bishopsgate Street Bridewell called celebrated century chapel Charles the Second church of St Cornhill court Cripplegate Crosby Place daughter death dedicated to St derives its name died Duke Earl east Edward the Fourth Edward the Third England erected famous Fenchurch Street fire of London Friars garden gate Gracechurch Street Gresham hall head Helen's Henry the Eighth honour inscription interesting interred James King king's Lady Lane Leadenhall Street London Bridge London Wall lord mayor magnificent mansion Mary Mayor of London merchant monument Moorfields night north side Olave's old church Old Jewry palace parish Paul Pindar Paul's persons poet present princely Queen Elizabeth rebuilt reign of Edward reign of Henry remains residence Richard Royal Exchange scene Sir Christopher Wren Sir John Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Gresham Smithfield Southwark spot stone stood Thames tion took wife
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Seite 340 - For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Seite 159 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Seite 84 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Seite 133 - Church, to which the scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, 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 316 - London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called Grub-street" — , " lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Seite 140 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little alehouse on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow, and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Seite 143 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Seite 221 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America...
Seite 340 - A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would iteer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Seite 136 - Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this and the other...