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A New History of London
… in their formalities, from Stock's-market to St. Paul's church-yard. The cannon at the Tower and St. James's park … to the usual place for seeing the procession, opposite Bow-church, Cheapside. Being conducted afterward by the sheriffs … relating to controverted elections, have abused their trust, and been guilty of great partiality, and of gross …
A New History of London
… coronation-oath to him, by which he engaged to protect the church, to administer justice, to repress violence; and to … with. In the reign of William the Conqueror, the parish church of St. Mary in Cheapside, was built; and being the … by alienating the crown lands, and selling offices of trust and power, regardless of the public welfare or his own …
A New History of London
… escape; had been guilty of the most notorious breaches of trust, great extortions, and the highest crimes and … was therefore made a distinct parish by the name of Christ-church 6; the hamlet of Wapping Stepney, from the like cause, … though the knowledge only enables us to perceive that a reformation is now as much wanted at the bar, as it ever was …
A New History of London
… royal family, and the preservation of the constitution in church and state." The lord Chief Justice received his … among the rich than among the poor, and that if a reformation does not begin with the former, it will never … all persons chosen to offices of magistracy or places of trust in any city, coporation, or borough, should have …
A New History of London
… St. Thomas's, Bridewell, Bethlehem, and Christ-church, what part of them has either been given up or taken … his long services acknowledged by being elected to that trust: Mr. Deputy Hodges a wholesale booseller, and a … but 13 houses were burned and many more damaged; the church of St. Bennet Fink was also greatly injured. Another …
A New History of London
… spectators. A platform was laid from the hall to the abbey-church where the king and queen were crowned; and all the … little time before the great fire; and no considerable reformation had taken place since. The high streets had … exert the utmost of his abilities in discharging the great trust reposed in him, and support the privileges, customs, …
A New History of London
… lightning attracted by the beautified spire of St. Bride's church in Fleet-street, shattered it greatly: one stone … The Rev. Mr. Wachsel, minister of the German Lutheran church in Ayliffestreet, laid their affecting story before … citizens, and that in so doing he thought he fulfilled the trust reposed in him by his Danish majesty. Answer was made …
A New History of London
… A dumb peal of muffled bells was rung as they passed Bow church, and by the time the procession reached Fleet-street, … the interest of the money are to defray the charges of the trust, to pay annuities left to two of his servants, and the … 15th, "at the most convenient place near "Bethnal Green church." The sheriffs startled at this deviation from the …
A New History of London
… he being deemed by this court unworthy of their future trust or confidence." "That in all cases relative to the … Fleet-street, to the upper ground in the parish of Christ-church, Surry; 5000 l. for piling the foundations of the … grants from former kings by the city of London, and by the church of Westminster, in support of whose claims, …
A New History of London
… bigotry it required great art to withstand the power of a church, whose empire included the chief part of Europe. John … 1247. To the king's rapacity must be added that of the church. No ecclesiastical affairs could be negociated without … assembly of the citizens at large. They met in St. Paul's church-yard, and were deemed the supreme assembly of London, …