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A New History of London
… scarcely to be expected; and we may safely argue from Csar's silence respecting any town where London now stands, though … commonly seen. 3. Much about the same time, not far from St. Thomas Watering, in a garden near the road was dug up an … 4. Upon occasion of digging a foundation for the church of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside, after the great fire, Sir …
A New History of London
… prince. The only check to the general festivity on James's arrival, was that old enemy of the metropolis, the plague; … intended was destroyed; and a pasquinade was fixed on St. Paul's church, promising an art to assist weak memories, … above mentioned; but also by a grant he gave in 1620 to Clement Cotrel Esq. groom porter of his houshold, to license …
A New History of London
… otherwise than by his imprudent attachment to his father's favourite the duke of Buckingham, who was deservedly odious … idolatrous behaviour at the consecration of the church of St. Katharine Cree in Leadenhall street, which will lead us … Nor was this all; above 2000 of the populace rushed into St. Paul's, when the High Commission court was sitting; where …
A New History of London
… of impeachment against him, for causing his majesty's commission of array to be proclaimed in the city: for this … stopped up, excepting those entering at Charing Cross, St. Giles's in the fields, St. John's-street, Shoreditch, and Whitechapel; the …
A New History of London
… of all public business were altered from being in the king's name, to that of the keepers of the liberties of England: … called prince of Wales 1. Even the king's statues at St. Paul's and in the Royal Exchange were pulled down, and in … Clare market was just then finished, in the fields called Clement's inn fields; and it was by this act declared to be a …
A New History of London
… 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; the former … to other houses in the neighbourhood, and infected the parish officers who were employed about the dead. Another …
A New History of London
… and tenants; of which the justices of the courts of king's bench, common pleas, and the barons of the exchequer, were … the streets of London, were farther extended, and St. Paul's cathedral directed to be rebuilt, by an act of … Hubbard 200 St. Mary Woolnoth St. Mary Woolchurch 160 St. Clement Eastcheap St. Martin's Orgars 140 St. Mary Abchurch …
A New History of London
… February 6th 1685. For the satisfaction of comparing James's future actions with his first declarations it may be worth … appeared in the habits of their orders at Whitehall and St. James's, and scrupled not to boast to protestants, that … opened on Lady-day this year at Norton-Falgate, and at St. Margaret Westminster 14. Though the king had already …
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… made for the more effectually preserving the king's person and government 2, to all papists coming to the said … that no French papist might come into Whitehall, St. James's, or St. James's Park; and that all French papists … by building the streets round the Seven Dials in the parish of St. Giles in the fields; which was then crown land, …
A New History of London
… an invitation to dine at Guildhall on the lord-mayor's day this year. The Orange and Red regiments of trained … by both houses of parliament attended the service at St. Paul's cathedral; the street from St. James's to Temple … fastened without them 27. 1711. A petition from the parish of Greenwich to the house of commons for asistance in …