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A New History of London
… St. Thomas's, Bridewell, Bethlehem, and Christ-church, what part of them has either been given up or taken … his long services acknowledged by being elected to that trust: Mr. Deputy Hodges a wholesale booseller, and a … but 13 houses were burned and many more damaged; the church of St. Bennet Fink was also greatly injured. Another …
A New History of London
… spectators. A platform was laid from the hall to the abbey-church where the king and queen were crowned; and all the … little time before the great fire; and no considerable reformation had taken place since. The high streets had … exert the utmost of his abilities in discharging the great trust reposed in him, and support the privileges, customs, …
A New History of London
… lightning attracted by the beautified spire of St. Bride's church in Fleet-street, shattered it greatly: one stone … The Rev. Mr. Wachsel, minister of the German Lutheran church in Ayliffestreet, laid their affecting story before … citizens, and that in so doing he thought he fulfilled the trust reposed in him by his Danish majesty. Answer was made …
A New History of London
… A dumb peal of muffled bells was rung as they passed Bow church, and by the time the procession reached Fleet-street, … the interest of the money are to defray the charges of the trust, to pay annuities left to two of his servants, and the … 15th, "at the most convenient place near "Bethnal Green church." The sheriffs startled at this deviation from the …
A New History of London
… he being deemed by this court unworthy of their future trust or confidence." "That in all cases relative to the … Fleet-street, to the upper ground in the parish of Christ-church, Surry; 5000 l. for piling the foundations of the … grants from former kings by the city of London, and by the church of Westminster, in support of whose claims, …
A New History of London
… bigotry it required great art to withstand the power of a church, whose empire included the chief part of Europe. John … 1247. To the king's rapacity must be added that of the church. No ecclesiastical affairs could be negociated without … assembly of the citizens at large. They met in St. Paul's church-yard, and were deemed the supreme assembly of London, …
A New History of London
… quality, laid aside his ensigns of mayoralty at Barking church, and entered the Tower in his private character. The … hundred of the populace, armed, repaired to St. Paul's church, and there in sulted a certain Lombard, and others in … who had never proved themselves the most dutiful sons the church of Rome could boast, began, even at this early period, …
A New History of London
… ridiculous, that the mayor carried on the work of moral reformation, regardless of their menaces. He also procured an … way; but when people began to question the dictates of the church, the sanguinary spirit of ecclesiastics made them … in 1447; for London was too well affected to him to trust his fate in that town. He was imprisoned, and soon …
A New History of London
… men, with which he marched toward London, demanding a reformation of government, and the dismission of the duke of … to the four lately mentioned; namely, in St. Paul's church-yard; the collegiate church of St. Martin-le-Grand, at St. Mary de Arcubus, or Bow …
A New History of London
… to be conducted publickly through the city to St. Paul's church; and thence back to his prison. Lambert landed in … great shaft or May-pole in Leadenhall-street, before the church thence termed the church of St. Andrew Undershaft. The … increase of virtue and not of strife 29. Several points of reformation had been agreed too, and the king entered into a …