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Survey of London
… three hogsheads of water on a specially constructed scaffold.) His name never appears in the ratebooks at the …
Survey of London
Old and New London
… the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into a great scaffold, across the north end of the Abbey, where, with a … the King-at-Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any …
Old and New London
… Earl of Derwentwater, who soon after died headless on the scaffold; the Earl of Carnwath and the Lords Widdrington and …
Old and New London
… from his bedchamber in St. James's Palace to the scaffold at Whitehall. The king, as he passed along on that … of the execution of your Royal Highness's father upon a scaffold?" The story may be true or false: at all events it …
Old and New London
… of the king's pocket, when the body was removed from the scaffold. For the orange he was offered twenty shillings by a …
Survey of London
… thereof by the Courtgate, and went along upon a stately scaffold to the Great-chamber stairs, and through the … new gallery shown in the plan of 1670, and the "stately scaffold" presumably ran from the Court Gate more or less …
Survey of London
… for a time, he was led through the Banqueting House to the scaffold, which had been erected in front of that building, … a special means of access from the Banqueting House to the scaffold. Thus Herbert's original MS. 96 states that "his Ma ty past to ye scaffold through ye wall y t was purposely broken downe at ye …
Old and New London
… from it for his son and successor, Charles I., to the scaffold. It would be unpardonable to pass over an event of … was carried into effect three days afterwards upon a scaffold erected in front of the Banqueting House of … where he remained till summoned by Hacker to the scaffold." "This day," according to a contemporary MS., "his …
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