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Old and New London
… de Matfellon, a name the strangeness of which has given rise to many Whitechapel legends. According to Stow, the name …
Old and New London
… pen, the foggy, crowded streets eastward of the Temple rise before us, and are thronged with shaggy, uncombed …
Old and New London
… anecdotes to which the life and death of King Charles gave rise, but among them, perhaps, few are more singular than the … The host was brought in. Charles feebly strove to rise and kneel before it. The priest bade him lie still, and … secure the good offices of the mistress, might hope to rise in the world without rendering any service to the …
Old and New London
… the story of the fiddle, this, I suppose, might be the rise of it. Being in St. James's Park I heard an organ … fate of Cromwell's body has at different periods given rise to much controversy from the Restoration down to the …
Old and New London
… Whitehall covered with handsome mansions, most of which rise perpendicularly out of the river, with stairs and … "Behold! Augusta's glittering spires increase, And temples rise, the beauteous works of peace. I see, I see, where two …