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Old and New London
… common hangman in the Hall while the courts were sitting. Pepys, in his Diary, under date of April 21, 1661, after …
Old and New London
… recreation-ground. Every reader of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys will remember how they describe these gardens in their … II.'s court. It would have been scarcely gay enough for Pepys. In our own day it ought to suit even the simple taste …
Old and New London
… extremely, and, it would appear, even dangerously narrow. Pepys thus commemorates it in his "Diary," November 27, … for Oxford. Accordingly, we find gossiping Samuel Pepys writing, under date June 20th:"This day I informed … as far back as two centuries ago. Here a Mr. Moore told Pepys, in July, 1663, "the great news that my Lady …
Old and New London
… with a ring fence for deer. "This day," writes Samuel Pepys, in his "Diary," under date August 11, 1664, "for a … freely accessible to the public at large. At all events, Pepys tells us on one occasion in 1660 that when he went to … their attractions rather than the pursuit of the hounds." Pepys, in his gossiping manner, records from time to time the …
Old and New London
… were buried here. Under date of July 18, 1665, Samuel Pepys writes in his "Diary:""I was much troubled this day to …
Old and New London
… with a dismal front to the bright and pleasant Embankment. Pepys, the indefatigable, was a frequent visitor to the … Melanthus, in The Maid's Tragedy, they were incomparable. Pepys is loud too in his praises of Hart. His salary, was, …
Survey of London
… Frasier, to be arrested for 30 due to him for firewood. Pepys states 21 that the bailiffs were whipped by the King's … was carried out in February-April, 1665, and on 20th April Pepys records: "This night I am told the first play is played … breadth of ye house" were carried out for the occasion. 54 Pepys, on the occasion of his visit in 1666, had expressed an …
Survey of London
… careers of the Court beauties to make up the Whitehall of Pepys, Evelyn and De Grammont. O(?)ne of the first matters … White Hall, where I glutted myself with looking on her." (Pepys' Diary.) The only reference which has been found to her … VIII, p. 66. This was on the night of 17th February. Pepys mentions that on the following morning the streets …
Old and New London
… providednot merely in the gossiping Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys, but in the memoirs and correspondence of scores of … Bridge," as the Stairs were often called. On this occasion Pepys draws our attention to the presence of the celebrated … GATEWAY, WHITEHALL. ( From a Drawing by G. Vertue.) Pepys tells us distinctly that the removal of Lord Clarendon …
Old and New London
… up at the further end of the hall" (Westminster), writes Pepys; and in the diary of a M. Sainthill, a Spanish …