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Old and New London
… Place, in order to view the scene. Having got into a hackney-coach, we drove to Bloomsbury Square, attracted to … line of route through Northern London to Shoreditch and Hackney. Hart Street was probably so namedlike Hart Street, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… created M.A. 27 Feb., 1651-2, one of these names rector of Hackney, Middlesex, 1685. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus & …
A New History of London
… Lygan, Luye, Ley, Luys, and Lewis; at present, the Lea, or Hackney river. Nails, pieces of planks, &c. belonging to …
A New History of London
… was in the year 1625, that we first meet with accounts of hackney coaches plying for hire in London: at that time they … patent was followed by a proclamation in 1635, against hackney coaches, which "were not only a great disturbance to … dear. Wherefore we expressly command and forbid, that no hackney coaches, or hired coaches, be used or suffered in …
A New History of London
… in 1654, passed an act which limited the number of hackney coaches within the cities of London and Westminster, … round the late lines of communication, to 300, with 600 hackney coach horses: the government and regulation of them, …
A New History of London
… life and inglorious reign declare. The number of hackney coaches in London and Westminster, now amounted to … of the pavement by their means, it was enacted that all hackney coaches should pay 5 l. a year toward paving and …
A New History of London
… act of the same session of parliament, a tax was laid on hackney coaches, the number of which was then fixed at 700, …
A New History of London
… These disorders did not want leaders, for some hackney coaches were observed to follow the mobs, from which … new churches 29. An act was also passed which licensed 800 hackney coaches, which were to pay five shillings weekly, and …
A New History of London
… on victuallers, impowered the commissioners for regulating hackney coaches and chairs, to license 100 more sedan chairs, …