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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… and contains 200 sittings. Here is a school of about fifty or sixty children, supported by subscription, under the … building. The number of boys in the school is about fifty or sixty; they consist principally of the sons of farmers, … of three principal streets, diverging from the High-street, in the centre, and containing a large proportion of …
A New History of London
… from no fixed systems of policy, nor were they extensive or lasting in their consequences. The ties of morality and … to plunder and destroy the weaker: the state of nature, or natural society, whatever poetical philosophers may … on the edge of Black-Heath. 5. On the left hand of Kent-street in the road to London, in the garden ground, (which …
A New History of London
… persons were also ordered to front their houses with brick or stone. The common-council, moreover, revived the prohibition of hawkers erecting stalls or vending goods in the city, with an exception, however, in … I. built a sessions-house of brick and stone in St. John's-street, for the justices to hold their quarter sessions in; …
A New History of London
… was to confine the Goldsmiths to Cheapside and Lombard street, and to prevent mean trades from mixing among them. … by musters of soldiers, keeping profane law courts in it, or carrying burthens through it; and at the conclusion of … Amen. He next bestowed as many blessings on such as had or should contribute any thing toward that sacred edifice; …
A New History of London
… from the magistracy, rendered incapable of any office or honour, and ordered to continue in prison during the … other materials; which laudable industry, the Royalists, or Cavalier party, endeavoured to burlesque in a ballad, … at Charing Cross, St. Giles's in the fields, St. John's-street, Shoreditch, and Whitechapel; the extremities of which …
A New History of London
… of England: and it was declared high treason, to proclaim or otherwise acknowledge Charles Stuart, commonly called … on the nation to support the commonwealth without king or house of peers; but the independents were not so numerous … After hearing two sermons at Christ-church in Newgate street, the house of commons, general officers, and council …
A New History of London
… an excise on malt liquors, cyder, perry, mead, spirits, or strong waters, coffee, tea, sherbet and chocolate 2. The … Yet the fumes of enthusiasm did not subside at once, or evaporate quietly, without shewing another instance of … his followers in their meeting house in Swan-alley Coleman-street, on Sunday January 6th 1661, and formed a design the …
A New History of London
… the day the fire broke out; for erecting a column of brass or stone on the spot where it began, with a proper … and for imposing a duty of one shilling per chaldron or ton, on coals for ten years, toward the necessary … market had been kept since the fire, in Aldersgate-street; but Newgate-market, and Stocks, or Woolchurch-market, …
A New History of London
… had ministers and judges prepared to feed it either with or without the forms of law. Few persons indeed could pity … 23d he was hanged, drawn and quartered, at the end of King-street Cheapside, fronting his own house. The outlines of a … by Fox, was reprinted under the title of " Idem Iterum, or queen Mary's big belly." The papists on the other side …
A New History of London
… papists coming to the said city, that were not inhabitants or foreign merchants; and upon refusal to read and subscribe … no French papist might come into Whitehall, St. James's, or St. James's Park; and that all French papists not being … viz. that in the Minories; those in and near Fleet-street, as Salisbury-court, White-friars, Ram-alley, and …