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Old and New London
… Death and Burial. In the glorious reign of Elizabeth the old Middle Temple Hall was converted into chambers, and a new … long supposed to be an exact copy of the Strand front of Old Somerset House; but this is a vulgar error; nor could it … Temple. Six years after, Prince Rupert, then a grizzly old cavalry soldier, and addicted to experiments in chemistry …
Old and New London
… through it, that it passed like a smile from the grimy old houses and the worn flagstones, and left them duller, … to shed their benedictions on her graceful head; old love-letters, shut up in iron boxes in the neighbouring … in the same court, gaining access to the rooms of an old lady named Duncomb, whom she knew to have money, …
Old and New London
… of Caen stone, was found under the foundation of some old houses at the Holborn end of Southampton Buildings. In …
Survey of London
… immediately to the south of the Palace buildings, was an old passage leading to the court called "the Pheasaunt … was built (see below) and in the two following years "the old Tennis Court" was altered to provide lodgings for the … Monmouth rooms as marked on the plan of 1670 include the old Tudor building which fronted the street to the north of …
Old and New London
… Futile ExplorationThe FuchsiaPublic-house SignsWapping Old StairsShadwell and its Springs. Sub-river tunnels are not … and angry sounds of Father Thames's roarings. Rogers (an old sergeant of the Guards), the only man left upon the … and after him Mr. Gravatt, each making a rope fast to old Tillet's waist, who, having been looking after the …
Survey of London
… building incorporated the galleried western part of the old auditorium, which Leslie Hotson thinks may have escaped … the theatre prior to 1696, 'the Area, or Platform of the old Stage, projected about four Foot forwarder, in a … that there could be no additional Space within the old walls and Roof. Upon Reflection I perceived that one Way …
Survey of London
… the first theatre), to pay the building shareholders the old rent of 3 10 s. for each night of acting; but if the … number of them, led by Thomas Betterton, to remove to the old theatre at Lisle's Tennis Court, where they opened in … shareholders were now able to grant a new sub-lease, the old one having expired at Christmas 1732, and in May 1733 …
Survey of London
… Brydges Street (F) was opened on the south side of the old passage. 25 In 1753 Garrick and Lacy obtained a lease of … Property Room, Matted room and Carpenters Hall Building U Old Green room and New Green room Building V Scene rooms and … the two halves of plot Q was described as 'Formerly old Passage to said Theatre . . . with all Tenements . . . …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… in the Tower, who, as Mr. Echard phrases it, making some old Discoveries, was encouraged, as Oates before him, to put … Winnington urged Precedents for the like Attainder, old and new, and added these Reasons: '1. For the Lords to …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… of Affairs.' Debate about raising or continuing the Old Standard. These Matters being fully debated, the … new Money should have the same Weight and Fineness as the old; or, whether the established Standard should be raised? … the Mint. The Court-Party, who were for preserving the old Standard, urged, That as to the Price of Bullion, now …