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Survey of London
… Street CHAPTER XVI. West of Penton Street Nowhere in the old parish of Clerkenwell is a sense of the original … A stroll downhill from Penton Street along Donegal Street and Collier Street, which together constitute an east-west … 529). It was built in 17724 for Francis De Valangin, a Swiss-born physician who practised in Fore Street, …
Survey of London
… Bridge CHAPTER 17 - WESTMINSTER BRIDGE [See plates 48 and 49.] Suggestions for a bridge across the river at Westminster were mooted soon after the … The bridge was designed by Charles Labelye, a naturalised Swiss engineer and architect. His employment provoked the …
Old and New London
… CHAPTER V. ST. JAMES'S PARK. "A spark That less admires the Palace than the Park." Pope. Storey's GateOrigin of … Park in the Reign of Henry VIII.Rosamond's PondCharles II. and his Feathered PetsDuck IslandLe Notre employed in Laying … and protection a quiet and secluded island, with the Swiss cottage of the Ornithological Society, is reserved, at …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… There has just been opened for traffic a new branch of the North Eastern Railway (from Durham to Bishop Auckland) … will now I think bear comparison with any of the roads and bridges that the Romans have left us. My father has been … settled without bloodshed, or at least without much of it. Switzerland delivers up the prisoners and the independence of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… London Diary, July-December 1856 1. JULY. Finished 'Tunny' and went to Mr Foster's at St Johns Wood. No news. Fine day. … 2. Began a fish and also a machine. Went to cricket in the afternoon to Kennington Oval. No news. My father went to … about very well. Prussia is at present getting warm with Switzerland and both are preparing for active operations. I …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary April 1690 April 1690 April 1. Lieut. A. Gawne to … an account of your assistance in procuring direction for the payment of an old contingent bill due to the Royal … fleet. The Protestants of Piedmont have sent to those of Switzerland to demand help or they will not be able to resist …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary April 1692 April 1692 April 1. Whitehall. … esq., to be deputy-lieutenants for Middlesex, and for the Earl of Bedford, lord lieutenant of that county, to issue … extract of a letter from Mr. Cox, Envoy-Extraordinary in Switzerland, concerning what is due to him. [ H.O. Letter …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary August 1689 August 1689 Aug. 1. London. T. Ramsey [to the Earl of Shrewsbury]. The enclosed piece of ingenuity is … the Privy Seal to the commission of Mr. Cox, envoy to the Swiss Cantons. [ Ibid., p. 426.] Aug. 5. Certificate of Mr. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary August 1690 August 1690 Aug. 1. Mastricht. Letter to the King, containing suggestions for taking Bayonne, and … Thomas Cox, esq., their Majesties' Envoy-Extraordinary to Switzerland, of certain bills of exchange. [ S.P. Dom. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… William and Mary August 1691 August 1691 Aug. 1/11. Semlin. Lewis, Prince of Baden to the King. Writes to inform him that, hearing that the enemy … Aug. 14. Whitehall. Passes for Mr. John Francis Tilier, a Swiss officer, who had a pass in November last, to go to …