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A Dictionary of London
… 1761). Not named in the maps. White's Alley In St. Catherine's Court (Strype, ed. 1755~Boyle, 1799). Not … College On the east side of College Hill. North of St. Michael's Paternoster Church (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, … the east. The College was dedicated to St. Spirit and St. Mary for a Master, 4 fellow-masters, clerk, etc., and an …
Survey of London
… Green was done away with. (ix) The lodgings of the Earl of St. Albans constructed between October, 1670, and May, 1671, … clearly seen in Persoy's engraving of the Funeral of Queen Mary, reproduced in Loftie's Whitehall. The "Cosimo" drawing … It was again taken down in December, 1903, and set up in St. James's Park. The King's Guard Chamber, The Great Chamber …
Survey of London
… College of Eton, acquiring from the latter the Hospital of St. James (which he rebuilt as St. James's Palace) and 185 acres of land, most of which lay … to York Place, and from "Scotland" to the chapel of St. Mary Rouncivall. The latter property (Craig's Court) lay in …
Survey of London
… Houses having been so arranged as to preserve the view of St. Paul's Cathedral from Whitehall Street, which otherwise …
Old and New London
… Fall of WolseyAdditions to the Palace by Henry VIII.Queen Mary at WhitehallThe Palace attacked by … and wander either westwards through Spring Gardens into St. James's Park, or in a south-west direction past Whitehall … space which lies between the new Palaces of Whitehall and St. James's, and the old Palace at Westminster, is holy …
Old and New London
… there has since been no reception of the Court in town but St. James's Palace, and Whitehall will doubtless be rebuilt … and gradually the royal family removed from Whitehall to St. James's Palace, which thenceforward became known as the … of his apartment saw his sovereign, Charles I., walk from St. James's to the scaffold. At his death in January, 164950, …
Old and New London
… at an early date, formerly formed part of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster. In order to assert the extent of … succeeded to the place left vacant by Mrs. Hervey and Lady Mary Wortley Montague, in the previous generation." The Right … Inigo Jones's Banqueting House, and the steeple of St. Martin's Church, with the scaffolding about it. Then …
Old and New London
… street had the wall of that enclosure since converted into St. James's Park; but when Henry VIII. had acquired … hands of a man who kept an old iron shop in Belton Street, St. Giles's, to whom, it is supposed, they had been sold … bringing into contact and contrast the squalid poverty of "St. Giles's" with the wealth and luxury of "St. James's," and …
Old and New London
… much to that of the whole empire." THE HORSE GUARDS, FROM ST. JAMES'S PARK. ( Temp. Charles II.) The authority and … 8th, 1806, previous to its being buried the next day in St. Paul's. It had been brought from Greenwich by water to … and the undertakers, till the ceremony of its removal to St. Paul's commenced. This took place on the following day, …
Magna Britannia
… rights, but is still considered as one of the townships of St. Bees. Plan of Whitehaven The manor of Whitehaven, called … e. White-toft-haven), which had belonged to the priory of St. Bees, was purchased in his father's life-time by Sir … The chapel was augmented by lot in 1723. Mrs. Mary Moorhouse built a school at Mockerton in 1782, and …