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Old and New London
… Dunbar. Here he was waited upon by a deputation from the Parliament, desiring him to "magnify himself with the title … Commons in his pocket, after having dissolved the "Long" Parliament, as he subsequently explained to the "Barebones" Parliament assembled in the Council Chamber here. George …
Old and New London
… Incident in connection with the Last Days of Charles I.Parliament StreetMessrs. Nichols' … the authorities, in "beating the bounds," took a boat at Parliament Stairs and rowed to the centre arch of Westminster … to the Thames Embankment, and having an entrance from Parliament Street through handsome iron gates. We read in …
Old and New London
… the following description of it which occurs in the Act of Parliament by which it was given to the royal tyrant. Here it … this description is not overdrawn. By the same Act of Parliament it was directed to be called "The King's Palace at … the road which was then the sole access to the Houses of Parliament and the Courts of Law. In this gateway were the …
Old and New London
… the western side of Whitehall, between Charing Cross and Parliament Street, is occupied either by Government buildings … passes on her way to and from opening or proroguing Parliament. The clock in the turret which surmounts the … of the broad and open thoroughfare from Charing Cross to Parliament Street. The Treasury Buildings, which occupy some …
Magna Britannia
… it was still greater. According to the returns made to parliament at those periods, there were, in 1801, 2,104 … inhabitants, including seamen and carpenters. 6 Acts of parliament for improving the town and harbour of Whitehaven, … cures. Loweswater, though not enumerated in the return to parliament, among the townships of St. Bees, and sometimes …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The common fields of the parish were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1796 (NRO, Enclosure Map, 1797). No details of …
Survey of London
… support of the great petition which was being presented to Parliament, and his advice, repeated at Kennington, resulted …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… fields of the parish were finally enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1797. In 1600 most of the parish N. of the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… at Lewes. 5 A fine day but colder. It is expected that Parliament will be dissolved, because the Emperor of the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… most ugly termination to the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament; so bad that it spoils all the rest of the tower. … of the nation. Sir C. Barry wishes to extend the Houses of Parliament, but I think the outlay of money which it would … and Well's, cut up wood and drew some letters. No news. Parliament meets on Thursday. They are getting on with the …