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The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
Old and New London
… When the sad pomp along his banks was led! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each …
Old and New London
… she, And thou the queen of floods shalt be. Range all thy swans, fair Thames, together in a rank, And place them duly … of the Tower. The regulations respecting the keeping of swans on the Thames have always been very strict, and from a … yearly value of five marks should be permitted to keep any swans; and in the eleventh year of Henry VII., 1496, it was …