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Survey of London
… to 23 opposite. Nos. 34 and 36, at the corner of Swinton Place, have side doorways. Nos. 38, 40 and 42 are like Nos. … first floor balconies. No. 33, at the corner of Swinton Place, is similar but has its doorway at the side. No. 35, at … which have low iron railings. No. 42, opposite Swinton Place, has a round-arched ground floor window and doorway …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… to the Treaty of Calais these devices take a conspicuous place in the financial history of the country, and merchants … grant he made arrangements for collecting a maletote in place of the subsidy (1) The first exaction was accompanied … in the letter be given him in wool or money at a time and place also fixed in the letter, whereupon letters obligatory …
Old and New London
… of the Knights Templars is a penitential cell, a dreary place of solitary confinement formed within the thick wall of … persons buried in the Temple Church, for so many ages a place of special sanctity, was William Plantagenet, fifth son … three schollop shells resume their proper and hereditary place." At the latter end of Charles II.'s reign the organ in …
Old and New London
… and hospitality. One of the most splendid of these took place in the fourth year of Elizabeth's reign, when the … officer absented himself at meals, any one sitting in his place was compelled to pay his fee and assume his office. Any … The masque came to Whitehall by water from Winchester Place, in Southwark; three peals of ordnance greeting them as …
Old and New London
… death was past broke just before eternal death had taken place upon me. The stagnation of the blood under one eye in a … PRINT ( see page 171). Not many recorded crimes have taken place in the Temple, for youth, however poor, is hopeful. It … one named of Harcourt, with the cheerful Crown Office Row (place of my kindly engendure), right opposite the stately …
Survey of London
… are referred to as "the tennis plays, bowling alleys, cock place and phesant courts," to which may be added the coney … where she always resides when she is in London. This place, which is situated two miles from my lodgings, is named … to require you to repayre speedily the further End of the place called the Bowling Alley next M r. Cookes lodgings …
Survey of London
… being the stuccoed archway bearing the name Shepherd's Place, shown in Plate 74a, through which a glimpse of the … estate can be seen. Except for a narrow outlet to Ann's Place, in the south-east corner, which may be of later date, … the north side of Wentworth Street, at the corner of Ann's Place. 19 The premises, which had formerly been a public …
Old and New London
… penetrated for long distances, the tunnel at the former place extending upwards of a mile beneath the sea. At the … costly. If the tunnel had been begun in a different place, and at the deep level of the Tower Subway, Mr. Brunel … hydrogen would burst into fire, and wrap the whole place in a sudden sheet of flame. Those who witnessed these …
Survey of London
… of Damsels that hunt for Prey, sit all together in this Place, Higgledypiggledy, chatter, toy, play, hear, hear not. … between the two foremost (and then only) Pilasters; in the Place of which Doors, now the two Stage-Boxes are fix't. That … and the River Thames that can be seen from any other place. 'The accommodations for the Stage are upon a larger …