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… (continued) CHAPTER V. FLEET STREET ( continued). The "Green Dragon"Tompion and PinchbeckThe RecordSt. Bride's … was hung for an intrigue in which he had been detected. William Venor, a warden of the Fleet Prison, added a body and … 3, Crane Courtwherein was carried on the business of Mr. William Last. It was here that Punch first saw the light. The …
Old and New London
… VII. FLEET STREETS (NORTHERN TRIBUTARIESCHANCERY LANE). The Asylum for Jewish ConvertsThe Rolls ChapelAncient … Csar"Trampling on a Master of the RollsSir William Grant's OdditiesSir John LeachFuneral of Lord … the son of a tradesman at Bedford, afterwards a merchant's clerk and an embryo architect. Mr. Canning appointed him …
Old and New London
… Street (Northern TributariesShoe Lane And Bell Yard). The Kit-Kat ClubThe Toast for the YearLittle Lady MaryDrunken … were originally Whig patriots, who, at the end of King William's reign, met in this out-ofthe-way place to devise … Godfrey Kneller, the great Court painter of the reigns of William and Anne, was a member; and he painted for his friend …
Old and New London
… Clifford's InnDyer's ChambersThe Settlement after the Great FirePeter Wilkins and his Flying WivesFetter … than deed or statute. Harrison the regicide was in youth clerk to an attorney in Clifford's Inn, but when the Civil … original, uninjured, Domesday Book, compiled by order of William, the conqueror of England. It is written in a …
Old and New London
… Court, Fleet Street, took its name from an inn which bore the sign of the "Falcon." This passage formerly belonged to a … adds Hatton, "before the late Act of Parliament (9 & 10 William III. c. 17, s. 15) for taking them away." This useful … into one hundred shares, some of which were held by Sir William Jackson, M.P., Sir Joshua Watkins, and the late Sir …
Old and New London
… - Shoe Lane CHAPTER XI. FLEET STREET TRIBUTARIESSHOE LANE. The First LucifersPerkins' Steam GunA Link between … "on one Sunday, 1632, as myself and a justice of peace's clerk were, before service, discoursing of many things, he … encouraged in his own country, he left Holland with William the Third, and was the first artist who settled in …
Old and New London
… in Bolt CourtThe Bird BoyThe Private SoldierIn the HouseDr. Johnson in Gough SquareBusy at the … Dr. Johnson's death, when the poet Rogers was a young clerk of literary proclivities at his father's bank, he one … of Waterloo, urging him (the duke) if he came with King William and Queen Adelaide to dine with the new Lord Mayor, …
Old and New London
… COURT, JOHNSON'S COURT, BOLT COURT). Removal of the Royal Society from Gresham CollegeOpposition to … to RemovalThe First CatalogueSwift's jeer at the SocietyFranklin's Lightning Conductor and King George … and TerryProsecutions for LibelHook's Impudence. In the old times, when newspapers could not legally be published …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… FLEGG HUNDREDS, WEST AND EAST. These two hundreds make up the deanery of Flegg. King Stephen, by letters patents, … valued together with the hundred of Happing at 18 l. and William de Burgh, farmed them of the King in 1266, at the … 1328, John de Stanhow. Richard Popham. 1342, Walter Clerk. 1345, the deanery of the town of Yarmouth Magna, was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… is a village and small parish adjoining Peterborough on the S. The church is the principal monument. Roman (1). Village … of the 16th century; 2nd by Tobias Norris, 1620; 3rd by William Wates, 1590. Carvings: (Plate 58) In chancelon S. …