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Old and New London
… the crier to proclaim silence while their commission was read, both to the court and the people assembled. That done, …
Survey of London
… a rich Pillow or Cushion." The letters patent having been read, the King put on him the robes, girt on the sword, … Law was evidently of opinion that it was. In a paper read before the London Topographical Society in 1911 121 he … took them into the room within the bed-chamber: when he read the petition he was angry, and said, he did not expect …
Old and New London
… But long before that time it had been in lay hands. We read that it was erected on lands originally belonging to one … adopted by Wolsey here is known to every child who has read the History of Englandhow he formed his domestic … the Court by the "children of the Chapel Royal;" and we read in Ben Jonson's Life that his Cynthia's Revels was put …
Old and New London
… In the "New View of London," published in 1708, we read, "This Palace being in the beginning of January, 1697, … ago. In Notes and Queries, September, 1874, p. 205, we read that "Cromwell's body was dug up, his head put on a pike …
Old and New London
… that it was subsequently set up at Buckingham House. We read incidentally that the gardens were intersected by a … from Parliament Street through handsome iron gates. We read in Macaulay that in the panic arising out of the … and errand-boys of London only a small proportion could read, and it was necessary to use marks which the most …
Old and New London
… it "for the leve," he ensures its being opened and read by the great military authority addressed, and by him … with the ratification. "On his arrival in town," we read, "he was greeted with immense cheering by the populace. …