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A New History of London
… Elizabeth, the succession was peaceably admitted to be in James VI. of Scotland, as great grandson of Margaret, … intended was destroyed; and a pasquinade was fixed on St. Paul's church, promising an art to assist weak memories, … Holborn was gradually continued up to the village of St. Giles's in the fields 6. The old ruinous gate at the eastern …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 11 Charles I CHAP. XI. From the accession of Charles I. to the commencement of the civil … on June 18, was laid aside on account of the plague, which in the space of a year swept away 35,417 persons; a terrible … idolatrous behaviour at the consecration of the church of St. Katharine Cree in Leadenhall street, which will lead us …
A New History of London
… no less than 4000 of them enlisted under the earl of Essex in one day 1; the parliament committed the lord-mayor Sir … stopped up, excepting those entering at Charing Cross, St. Giles's in the fields, St. John's-street, Shoreditch, and …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 13 To the Restoration CHAP. XIII. From the execution of Charles I. … the forms of all public business were altered from being in the king's name, to that of the keepers of the liberties … called prince of Wales 1. Even the king's statues at St. Paul's and in the Royal Exchange were pulled down, and in …
A New History of London
… Charles II. to the destruction of London by the great fire in 1666. King Charles II. was proclaimed May the 8th 1660, at … and on the 29th which was his birth day, he was met in St. George's fields by the lord-mayor and aldermen of London; … of the month, the disorder which had chiefly raged in St. Giles's, Holborn, and toward Westminster, began to travel …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 15 From the Fire to the death of Charles II CHAP. XV. From the great fire in 1666, to the death of king Charles II. No time was lost in … the streets of London, were farther extended, and St. Paul's cathedral directed to be rebuilt, by an act of …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 16 To the Revolution CHAP. XVI. From the accession of James II. to … him at Whitehall, he assembled a privy-council, and in his speech told them he had been reported to be a man for … appeared in the habits of their orders at Whitehall and St. James's, and scrupled not to boast to protestants, that …
A New History of London
… from them; now a popish family existed and was harboured in France, that might naturally be expected to keep up … that no French papist might come into Whitehall, St. James's, or St. James's Park; and that all French papists … the streets round the Seven Dials in the parish of St. Giles in the fields; which was then crown land, and was …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 18 Queen Anne CHAP. XVIII. From the accession of queen Anne, to her death. 1702. King William … company, went to the house of Mr. James Eaton linen-draper in Cheapside, facing Bow-church, from whose balcony she … by both houses of parliament attended the service at St. Paul's cathedral; the street from St. James's to Temple …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 19 George I CHAP. XIX. During the reign of king George I. The protestant succession to the … 1, and her issue 2 : on her death, the inheritance rested in her son George Lewis, duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, and … of the nobility and gentry, all with six horses. At St. Margaret's-hill he was met by the lord-mayor, aldermen, …