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Old and New London
… last century. A curious story about this church is told by Evelyn in his "Diary," under date Good Friday, 1687. "Dr. … with a place of retirement and study. "He told me," says Evelyn ("Diary," Feb. 15, 1684), "there were thirty or forty … This put the pious Doctor on this design." On the 23rd Evelyn again writes, "Afterwards I went with Sir Christopher …
Old and New London
… (site of Albemarle Street). On August 27, 1661, good Mr. Evelyn, one of the commissioners, describes going with Wren, … the quire fallen into St. Faith's. On Monday, the 3rd, Mr. Evelyn describes the whole north of the City on fire, the sky … St. Faith's were blown as far as Eton. On the 7th (Friday) Evelyn again visited St. Paul's. The portico he found rent in …
Survey of London
… preferred it to her parish church of St. James, 47 and Evelyn worshipped here on a number of occasions in 168790, … p. 716. B.M., Add. MS. 4194, f. 49v. The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, vol. IV, pp. 5447, 6524; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the will of its generous benefactress, Miss Clara Evelyn Mordan, but there was still a heavy debt on the … entrance-hall, and the old library, named after Miss Clara Evelyn Mordan was converted into a room in which meetings of …
Survey of London
… at angles. North Wall (from the East) 17. HENRY FRANCIS EVELYN, 1809 In a Vault near this Place are deposited the Remains of HENRY FRANCIS EVELYN eldest son of Lyndon and Elizabeth who died of …
Survey of London
… stress the fashionable element in the congregation. John Evelyn remarked that a sermon which he had heard elsewhere on … 1687/8. Ibid., D1756, 9 Jan. 1690/1. The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, vol. v, p. 542 (18 July … Relation . . ., 1857, vol. i, p. 313; The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, vol. iv, p. 397; E. Hatton, …
Survey of London
… Hotel (see below), may have been rebuilt for Sir John Evelyn, who appears in the ratebooks from 1739 to 1763. … Square should presumably be to St. James's Place. Sir John Evelyn was never rated for and never owned a house in the …
Survey of London
… the area then unbuilt. 8 In August of the same year John Evelyn complimented St. Albans, together with Lords Clarendon … Freart, Sieur de Chambray; made English . . . by John Evelyn . . ., 1664, dedication to Charles II. P.R.O., …
Survey of London
… an Act of Parliament. 5 One of the commissioners was John Evelyn, who records that the street had previously been 'a … 22063 passim. 14 Chas. II, c. 2, public. The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E. S. de Beer, 1955, vol. iii, p. 328. W. J. …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… an attraction to cultivated Englishmen. Thus in 1648 John Evelyn attended the chapel to hear the Italian sermon given … London, 1550-1950 (The Hague, 1950), 98; The Diary of John Evelyn, ed. E.S. de Beer (Oxford, 1955) ii, 545; Watney, 157, …