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A New History of London
… being read at the end of Chancery-lane, in Fleet-street, at the end of Wood-street in Cheapside, and at the Royal Exchange, the ceremony … 10, another road was opened from the end of Goswell-street road next Islington, by which the former new road was …
A New History of London
… laid a scheme before the corporation, for forming a street from the front of the mansion-house to Moorfields, … He was then drawn to the Three tuns-tavern, from an upper window of which he persuaded the populace to retire; … locum tenens at a table placed on an elevation across the upper end of the Egyptain-hall, his noble attendants on the …
A New History of London
… of his friends at the London tavern in Bishopsgate-street, February 20th, a subscription was opened to support … Bow church, and by the time the procession reached Fleet-street, the mob then greatly increased, grew quite … called to the chair, which at first had been placed at the upper end of the hall on the flight of steps leading to the …
A New History of London
… mayor, when Richard Oliver, Esq; merchant in Fenchurch-street, and one of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights, was … prison; and then to make a clear open road from Turnmill-street to Blackfriars-bridge. The terms of the exchange … Fleet-ditch, and making the way from Fleet-street, to the upper ground in the parish of Christ-church, Surry; 5000 l. …
A New History of London
… city, which stood where now the Still-yard is in Thames-street. 1222. A trivial occurrence in the year 1222 furnished … the king's brother, his fee-farm of Queenhithe in Thames-street, with all the rights, customs and appurtenances …
A New History of London
… by the privy-council, sitting at White Friars, in Fleet-street, if they would fine for their tallage, or, like … French ambassadors. It was held in Cheapside, between Wood-street and Queen-street; the street being covered with sand to prevent the …
A New History of London
… wards: the first return whereof begins thus: Bread-street Dominus Nicholas Brembre, miles, electus est in … the casting any dung, garbage, or offal, into any street, ditch, &c. on penalty of 20 l. By act of parliament … revenge this indignity, by a fray which happened in Fleet-street, in which one of the bishop of Salisbury's domestics …
A New History of London
… Teutonicorum, but now the Stillyard or Steelyard in Thames-street, confirmed to them, on the payment of 70 l. a year to …
A New History of London
… 1498. Certain grounds on the north side of Chiswell-street, and in the manor of Finsbury, were, in the year 1498, … were executed on moveable gibbets, which were drawn from street to street for that purpose, to extend the terror of … Martin's parish was literally in the fields, as was the upper part of St. Andrew's Holborn, with Westminster, …
A New History of London
… two alleys leading out of Cornhill into Threadneedle-street, called new St. Christopher's, and Swan alleys, for … geometry, and music, at his mansion-house in Broad-street, afterward Gresham college, at the yearly salary of 50 … 1577, drew together several springs into a head, at the upper end of Red-lion street, Holborn, since denominated from …