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A New History of London
… prince. The only check to the general festivity on James's arrival, was that old enemy of the metropolis, the plague; … intended was destroyed; and a pasquinade was fixed on St. Paul's church, promising an art to assist weak memories, … the jurisdiction of the corporation over Duke's Place, St. Bartholomew the Greater and Less, Black and White Friars, …
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… otherwise than by his imprudent attachment to his father's favourite the duke of Buckingham, who was deservedly odious … idolatrous behaviour at the consecration of the church of St. Katharine Cree in Leadenhall street, which will lead us … Nor was this all; above 2000 of the populace rushed into St. Paul's, when the High Commission court was sitting; where …
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… of impeachment against him, for causing his majesty's commission of array to be proclaimed in the city: for this … stopped up, excepting those entering at Charing Cross, St. Giles's in the fields, St. John's-street, Shoreditch, and Whitechapel; the …
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… of all public business were altered from being in the king's name, to that of the keepers of the liberties of England: … Stuart, commonly called prince of Wales 1. Even the king's statues at St. Paul's and in the Royal Exchange were pulled down, and in …
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… and on the 29th which was his birth day, he was met in St. George's fields by the lord-mayor and aldermen of London; the former … well armed and declared for King Jesus. They marched into St. Paul's church-yard, where questioning one unhappy man, …
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… and tenants; of which the justices of the courts of king's bench, common pleas, and the barons of the exchequer, were … the streets of London, were farther extended, and St. Paul's cathedral directed to be rebuilt, by an act of … St. John Baptist 120 St. Bennet, Grace-church St. Leonard, East-cheap 140 St. Bennet, Paul's wharf St. Peter, …
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… February 6th 1685. For the satisfaction of comparing James's future actions with his first declarations it may be worth … appeared in the habits of their orders at Whitehall and St. James's, and scrupled not to boast to protestants, that … opened on Lady-day this year at Norton-Falgate, and at St. Margaret Westminster 14. Though the king had already …
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… made for the more effectually preserving the king's person and government 2, to all papists coming to the said … that no French papist might come into Whitehall, St. James's, or St. James's Park; and that all French papists … on aldermen John Wildman, William Gore, and James Houblon; Leonard Robinson, the chamberlain; Rowland Ainsworth, William …
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… an invitation to dine at Guildhall on the lord-mayor's day this year. The Orange and Red regiments of trained … by both houses of parliament attended the service at St. Paul's cathedral; the street from St. James's to Temple bar, was lined with the Westminster …
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… of the nobility and gentry, all with six horses. At St. Margaret's-hill he was met by the lord-mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, … companies in their formalities, from Stock's-market to St. Paul's church-yard. The cannon at the Tower and St. …