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A New History of London
… and a manifesto to be read in which the chevalier de St. George declared his son Charles, regent of his dominions, … in great hazard of his life: at length a privateer of St. Malo, hired by his friends, took him on board September … to gain his liberty. He officiated as a jesuit priest at St. Omers until the rebellion in the year 1715, when coming …
A New History of London
… in the gulph of Mexico; and Canada, up the river St. Laurence; along the extensive sea coast between which lay … into the rights of the city in the five great hospitals St. Bartholomew's, St. Thomas's, Bridewell, Bethlehem, and Christ-church, what …
A New History of London
… had been demanded in marriage by our sovereign, arrived at St. James's palace, on the afternoon of September 8th, and … throng were so great, that the royal guests did not reach St. James's till two in the morning. The houses both in … in Cock-lane West Smithfield, who was parish clerk to St. Sepulchre's without Newgate. While K. remained here, his …
A New History of London
… of Brunswic Lunenburg; in the great council chamber at St. James's, by the archbishop of Canterbury: her portion … storm, the lightning attracted by the beautified spire of St. Bride's church in Fleet-street, shattered it greatly: one … country, by a promise of settling them in the islands of St. John, and Le Croix, in America. After they had been …
A New History of London
… introduction of his own writing; in which the affair of St. George's-fields was termed an horrid massacre, and the … of the hearse was a painting of the murder of Allen in St. George's-fields, on the other, that of Clarke at … this hearse thus decorated drive slowly before them to St. James's gate. When they alighted, they discovered that …
A New History of London
… the prison to a piece of ground belonging to the city in St. George's-fields, Southwark: for placing the Fleet-market … presented on the 7th of November to the king at St. James's, and was honoured with just as much regard as had … sheriffs, and about 100 of the commoners, went with it to St. James's. The recorder being still absent from his duty, …
A New History of London
… of this city remaining still in the crown, William de St. Michael paid to the king a fine of one hundred pounds for … 1210 summoned a parliament to meet him at his palace in St. Bride's parish, London; where he exacted of the clergy … of ground granted him in the Strand, in the parish of St. Clement's Danes, whereon to erect a forge, he rendering …
A New History of London
… in the streets after the ringing of the coverfeu bell at St. Martin's-le-grand: that all vintners and victuallers were … custos of the city, A. D. 1295, disputed with the prior of St. Bartholomew's, concerning the profits arising from the … remitted to the pope by way of exchange 11". The bishop of St. Andrews, at this time prisoner at Winchester, was allowed …
A New History of London
… into three bodies, one party hurried to the rich priory of St. John of Jerusalem (at Clerkenwell) near Smithfield, which … changed their resolution, and marched under his conduct to St. George's-fields; while Walworth and Philpot hastened to … court should be chosen by the wards fifteen days after St. Gregory, and that they should assemble at least once in a …
A New History of London
… sensible of his danger, levied an army; and the battle of St. Alban's 1, in which the duke of Somerset was killed, put … of many outrages and tumults. Those of the liberty of St. Martin's-le-Grand insulting the citizens, the magistrates … five more schools to the four lately mentioned; namely, in St. Paul's church-yard; the collegiate church of St. …