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Old and New London
… to the Abbey, we are told, were lined with double rows of soldiers, horse and foot. The Conqueror rode through the … and St. Paul's; in a conflict between the mob and the soldiers, two of the former were killed. We learn …
Survey of London
… were for a few years occupied by the Britannia Club for Soldiers and Sailors 174 until 1923 when Morley College for …
Old and New London
… of the trial, January 27, as the king passed, one of the soldiers, touched with respect and sympathy, exclaimed, 'God … and saw the King come in with all the persons (but the soldiers) that were yesterday in the cavalcade; and a most … fashion, was converted into the semblance of a gala-day. Soldiers were posted at the gates, to regulate the entrance …
Old and New London
… would have thought those beds a good nursery for soldiers not of the "feather-bed" stamp. Under the dormitory …
Old and New London
… attempting to get into St. James's Palace, he forbade the soldiers to fire, but ordered them to keep off the rioters … to take hold of the bayonets and shake them, defying the soldiers to fire or hurt them; however, nothing further was … elder children, looked down from the balcony to bid her soldiers farewell. All sorts of silly stories are current …
Old and New London
… we are told, not only shed tears, but, unawed by the soldiers who lined the streets, offered up audible prayers …
Old and New London
… the Petition of Right it was declared unlawful to billet soldiers on private families, the alehouses and smaller inns … once been denied this piece of justice, but they were not soldiers who were guilty of so great an indignity." It is …