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Old and New London
… TrialBacon and YelvertonHis ExecutionSir Walter Scott's "Fortunes of Nigel"Shadwell's Squire of AlsatiaA Riot in … Some in small time did this distemper kill; And had the savage authors gone on still, Fustian had been a new disease …
Old and New London
… REMARKS. WHITEHALL ABOUT 1650. ( From a Copy by Smith of a Rare Print by Israd Silvestre.) "You must no more call … Placethat is past: For since the Cardinal fell that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall." … of the arts; and his love of the arts could not soften his savage nature. The prince who, with the utmost sang froid, …
Old and New London
… grac'd, But by his death imperfect and defac'd." Storer's Metrical History of Wolsey. Wallingford HousePope's Lines on the Death-bed Scene of Villiers, Duke of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Whymper's London Diary, January-June 1856 Whymper's London Diary, … that the war has done us (the engravers) a great deal of harm, but we would not have a bad peace on account of … in a very nervous state about my plans; my head has kept bobbing up and down so that I have done very little. MAY 1. …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Whymper's London Diary, January-June 1858 Whymper's London Diary, … been the greatest distress among all classes in all parts of the country. Let us try to be proportionably grateful. 2. … by a legitimate revolution if you will, heap infamy on the savage murderer if you will, execrate his memory if you will, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Whymper's London Diary, July-December 1856 Whymper's London Diary, … Gosse's blocks, cut up wood etc. No news. I went part of the afternoon to the Oval to see a cricket match, between … men, women and children slaughtered in hundreds. The most savage acts have been perpetrated for a settlement of this …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Whymper's London Diary, July-December 1857 Whymper's London Diary, … was favoured with a sharp thunderstorm, perhaps a remnant of that one which astonished Liverpool yesterday. The Queen … very indignant at such treatment and after a time became savage, managed to partly set himself free and assaulted the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Whymper's London Diary, July-December 1858 Whymper's London Diary, … damage. There was it appears a considerable quantity of saltpetre in the portion of the building on fire, which … misdirected by a postman, which made me feel exceedingly savage. In evening I played cricket in Archbishop's grounds, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Whymper's London Diary, July-December 1859 Whymper's London Diary, July-December 1859 1. July. [Blank] 2. … was enormously expensive to construct, costing upwards of 100,000 per mile, and must be an expensive line to work, …
Statutes of the Realm
… 1688 Chapter I. An Act for a Grant to Their Majestyes of an Ayd of Two shillings in the Pound for One Yeare. [Rot. … Morris Hunt Bartholomew Fillingham William Lownes Esq[uire]s Phillip Ryley Robert Squib Esquires Crispe Grange Edmund … William Bromley Thomas Foley Richard Dowdeswell Thomas Savage senior Henry Jeffryes George Walsh William Walsh Edwin …