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Old and New London
… the year 1874. It is also worthy of note that by an act of Pope Pius IX.which, however, is not recognised as valid for …
Old and New London
… into it, was a poor and narrow thoroughfare at its best. Pope, in one of his Letters, tells an amusing anecdote …
Old and New London
… century ago, it is to be feared, was low and disreputable. Pope tells us, for instance, how Curll's hack authors hung …
Old and New London
… "A spark That less admires the Palace than the Park." Pope. Storey's GateOrigin of "Birdcage Walk"The Wellington … consecrated to disastrous love and elegiac poetry," that Pope thus mentions it in the Rape of the Lock: "This the … says Pennant in 1790, "is lost in the new improvements." Pope, who did not approve of Le Notre's stiff and formal …
Old and New London
… friends. Thomas Betterton, the actor, and friend of Pope, was born in this street. In the reign of Elizabeth, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… VIII., in the year 1540, on the threatened invasion of the Pope, and described by Leland as "a right goodly and warlyke …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the south. Rochdale appears as an independent parish in Pope Nicholas' valuation in 1288; the other parishes were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… II., in 1311, on which occasion two nuncios, sent by the pope, endeavoured to restore peace between the contending …
A History of the County of Hertford
… and the rector, which terminated by an ordination of the pope dated 21 January, 12201. This ordination recites a mandate of Pope Honorius III in 1217, which sets out that the abbot and convent of Westminster had petitioned him stating that Pope Alexander (115981) and Pope Clement (118791) had granted …
A History of the County of Hertford
… they refused to receive the envoys and letter from the pope, demanding that the king, Edward II, should treat with …