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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… James Piccadilly; St. George Hanover Square; St. Margaret and St. John Westminster; with the liberties of the Rolls and the Savoy, and the precinct of the college of Westminster. The principal …
Old and New London
… Westminster Abbey Chapels and royal tombs CHAPTER LIII. WESTMINSTER ABBEY.THE CHAPELS AND ROYAL TOMBS. "A feeling sad came o'er me as I trod the … More shall cool and quench the blood Than her many sports a day And her nightly wanton play. Bid her paint till …
Old and New London
… pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof; By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my waking sight: the tombs And monumental caves …
Old and New London
… forget, though there we are forgot." Byron. Abbot Ingulph and Queen EdgithaA Monastic School in the "Dark Ages"The … Westminster dinner, by encouraging the college athletic sports, and other games, rowing, cricket, racquets, football, … Westminster School affords every opportunity for athletic sports. Racquets, football, and cricket have each their own …
Old and New London
… are altered." Goldsmith. Great Smith StreetSt. Margaret's and St. John's Free Public LibraryPublic Baths and … crime, And on Shrove Tuesday perish in thy prime!" Such sports, it is fortunate to add, are now very nearly extinct … and pedantry, was, apparently, a patron of sports and pastimes; at all events, we read that he granted to his …
Old and New London
… Park in the Reign of Henry VIII.Rosamond's PondCharles II. and his Feathered PetsDuck IslandLe Notre employed in Laying out and Improving the ParkThe DecoyThe King and his SpanielsWilliam III.'s Summer-houseSt. James's as a …
Old and New London
… Westminster Tothill Fields and neighbourhood CHAPTER II. WESTMINSTER.TOTHILL FIELDS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. "No mead so fit For courtly joust or … Word "Tothill"Punishment of NecromancersGrant of a Market and Fair to be held in "Tuthill"Burials in Tothill FieldsThe …
Survey of London
… PALACEBUILDINGS Sorbire came to England about 1665, and has left his impressions on record. One of the places … very stately, because the rest of the Palace is ill Built, and nothing but a heap of Houses, erected at divers times, … garden, which was before applied to lascivious and courtly pastimes, there he [Latimer] dispensed the fruitful word of …
Old and New London
… the Cardinal fell that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall." Shakespeare's Henry VIII., Act IV., … sc. 1. The most Polite Court in EuropeA School of Manners and MoralsHistorical Account of WhitehallAnciently called … of Queen Elizabeth's love of her Tiltyard:"These sports were great, and done in costly sort, to Her Majesty's …
Old and New London
… Historical remarks (continued) CHAPTER XLVI. WHITEHALL, AND ITS HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES (continued). "Non isto … Restoration of the PalaceThe Cock-pitCromwell and Sir Roger L'EstrangeDeath of Oliver CromwellThe Ultimate … 1697, demolished by fire, except the Banqueting House and the Holbein Gateway, there has since been no reception of …