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Old and New London
… of the Black Prince, two esquires, Frank de Haule and John Schakell, had taken prisoner a Spanish (or, according to … had, however, a powerful friend at court, in the person of John of Gaunt. The two English captors refused to part with so valuable a prize; and John of Gaunt at once imprisoned them in the Tower, whence …
Old and New London
… On the revival of the "old religion," under Queen Mary, John Feckenham, late Dean of St. Paul's, was appointed Abbot … the "Calendar of State Papers," edited by the late Mr. John Bruce, was a most magnificent and costly pageant, the … Inigo Jones, and the sermon, preached by the Lord Keeper, John Williams, afterwards Archbishop of York, was two hours …
Old and New London
… of others that offer themselves to the memory, we find Sir John Pickering, and Sir Bernard Brocas, who lost his head in … Shovel. When a boy in the navy, under the patronage of Sir John Narborough, hearing that admiral express an earnest wish … are those of Grace, Countess Granville, who died in 1744; John, Earl Granville, 1763; Martha, Viscountess Lansdown, …
Old and New London
… monks, for that they took out of Sanctuarie at Westminster John Holland, Duke of Excester, and conveyed him to the … the alms of the Abbey were there distributed to the poor, John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, erected the first press for … at the 'Reed Pale,'" the name by which, as Mr. John Timbs tells us in his "Curiosities of London," was known …
Survey of London
… of 360 feet, was leased by the Commissioners in 1751 to John Lambert. 155 In 1785 the New Inn occupied most of this … of the General Lying-in Hospital, was established by Dr. John Leake in 1765 (see p. 41) on the site of Nos. 214218, … Hatch, at Lambeth. 88 This lay behind the site of St. John's Church, Waterloo Road. Having amassed a little capital …
Old and New London
… Henry III.Prince Henry crowned in his Father's LifetimeSir John Dymoke, the King's ChampionThe Hall rebuilt by Richard … exhausted on a litter), history first informs us that Sir John Dymock, as successor of the Marmions who came over to … doomed to the block in Westminster Hall, in the person of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who had inflexibly opposed …
Old and New London
… Pence" for the Best Writers of Latin Verse"Glorious" John DrydenCowleyHackluyt, the Divine and GeographerSir … historians Gibbon, Camden, and Froude; the elder Colman; John Locke, the philosopher; Bunbury, whose prints of the … part of George III.'s reign are now so much in demand; John Horne Tooke; Brown Willis, the antiquary; Montagu, Earl …
Old and New London
… devoted to a public recreation-ground. Every reader of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys will remember how they describe … said by Mr. J. H. Jesse to have been a favourite resort of John Dryden, where he used to eat mulberry tarts. To this the … correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine for 1745, "plain John Dryden, before he paid his court with success to the …
Old and New London
… the Precinct of the Savoy, St. Clement's, St. John the Evangelist, and St. George's (Hanover Square). These …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… to the deanery of Windsor to make room for the new abbot, John Feckenham, and the canons were to receive annual … to be united with the rectories of St. Margaret and of St. John, Westminster. The procedure by which the prebends were … and the requisite number was reached by 1859. When John Le Neve published his lists of the deans and canons in …