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Old and New London
… and a friend of Selden's, and was the person to whom Ben Jonson dedicated his bitter play, The Poetaster. In the … noble and kindly undertaker: signed, your true lover, Ben Jonson." On the accession of James I. some of his hungry …
Survey of London
… property. In 1775 Garrick bought the fee farm of the Ben Jonson's Head Tavern in Russell Street 32 (plot O on fig. 2), … agreed to sell to the Duke their fee farm of the Ben Jonson's Head in Russell Street (A on fig. 4), which Garrick … shown on fig. 5. The plot there marked A, formerly the Ben Jonson's Head (the freehold of which had been bought from …
Old and New London
… his "History of the World," assisted, it is said, by Ben Jonson and other scholars. Here, bit by bit, King James … splendour, Inigo Jones supplying the scenery, and Ben Jonson, in beautiful verse, eulogising the handsome couple in …
Survey of London
… the scolhowse wyndowe & for vj newe q'rels iijs ijd." Ben Jonson received his early education at this school, which was …
Old and New London
… the "Bag o' Nails"a perversion of "The Bacchanals" of Ben Jonson. "About fifty years ago," writes the author of "Tavern …
Old and New London
… being ninety feet high and fifty broad. Decker and Ben Jonson furnished the speeches and songs for this pageant. … of Merchant Taylors' School to welcome the king, but Ben Jonson was finally invited to write an entertainment. The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… op. cit. 210. Statement in a 17th-century pedigree. Ben Jonson wrote laudatory verses on Sir John: 'I do not know a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… side, (17) Newton, (18) Shakespeare, (19) Spenser, (20) B. Jonson (Plate 267), (21) Beaumont, (22) Fletcher, (23) Inigo …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… See vol. i, p. 45. 1445 Pardon to John Robynson Jonson Addison of Milnebekstok, "yeoman," of his outlawry in …
Old and New London
… do worsetake sanctuary in Cole-Harbour, and fast." Ben Jonson, "The Silent Woman," act ii., sc. I. " Old Harding. … I. It was one of the taverns frequented by the wits in Ben Jonson's time. In one of his plays he says: "A pox o' these … And see there the gimblets how they make their entry.' Ben Jonson, "The Devil is an Ass," act i., sc. I. On the 23rd of …