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Old and New London
… right professed to be founded on charters by King Lucius. Some instances of its use may be of interest here. To the … abandoned resorted to them, the dread of innovation, or some other cause, preserved them from demolition, till, in … so enormous that it became absolutely necessary to take some legislative measures for their destruction. The …
Old and New London
… is a monument to his memory in Salisbury Cathedral, where some years ago the silken cord with which he was executed was … the Puritan soldiery under Colonel Baxter. A fray arose, some of the party attacking the sentinels, whom they knocked … pullet, and so Mr. Creed and I got Mr. Minshell to give us some bread, and so we at a stall ate it, as everybody else …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1303. 10 While the hundred was a fragment of a larger one, some of its constituent parts were fragments of townships and …
Old and New London
… struggled for a long time, but without good reason; some supposed advantage to such places by another scheme … which they leave off at the last challenge (subject now to some additional examination test) being that in which they … Putney, from June till Michaelmas, no doubt on account of some fever or plague breaking out. In 1569 the school was …
Old and New London
… foundation stood. It consists of the mansion house, and at some distance from each end of that, conjoined by two arching … of their Majesties, at the Queen's palace, to present some bas-reliefs which the Queen had ordered, and to show some new improvements, with which they were well pleased. …
Old and New London
… to have before us, if not a map of, at all events some few general notes upon, the district over which we shall … companions of St. Augustine, the Roman missionary, is by some writers said to have destroyed a pagan temple on Thorney … in the Church of St. Peter in the Island of Thorney. Some writers have sought to carry the antiquity of the church …
Old and New London
… Cromwell himself; and it was from his abode here that, some months after the murder of his sovereign, he set forth … his death. Hollar's widow survived him many years, and some time after his death sold to Sir Hans Sloane a large … mares, he seemed more than ordinarily disturbed for some hours, sent for his ghostly father, and resolved to bear …
Old and New London
… City of Westminster, we will now endeavour to point out some of the chief features of interest, and penetrate into some of the courts and alleys that lie scattered through its … the musician, who was born in Westminster, lived for some time in this lane. One of the most important features of …
Old and New London
… of the "New Critical Review" (1736) speaks of itwith some exaggeration, no doubtas being on the one side a … for hours on the benches in the walk, amusing himself with some tame ducks and his dogs, amidst a crowd of people, with whom he would talk and joke. It is fancied by some persons that no dogs are now left of the breed popularly …
Old and New London
… Abbey, and on which stood a few scattered buildings, some of them the residences of noble personages." They must have witnessed some extraordinary scenes in the Middle Ages. Here … it can be buried there." Here, a short while previously, some "1,200 Scotch prisoners, taken at the battle of …