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Survey of London
… on the north side east of Narrow Wall, which were sold or let on building leases. A plan made in 1785, by Thomas … Waterloo). North Side The houses on the bridge approach, formerly Nos. 17 Bridge Street, including the Coronet Inn at … the eastern end of it circa 1824. Nos. 240234 (even), formerly Nos. 8986, were built in 1823. No. 234 bears a …
Old and New London
… in 1517, Henry VIII. appeared in person, with the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and other noblemen, the Lord Mayor, and … parent's fate. Well did he deserve such tokens of filial love; for Sir Thomas, even when proceeding to the Superior … and whether that righteous doom shall be to life or death, I shall repose myself, full of gratitude and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… family, who also held the abbey's manor of Deerhurst or Plaistow. 2 Those franchises were described as half of the … called the stock house, which the bailiff of the liberty or hundred used for keeping prisoners. 11 The histories of …
Old and New London
… was gained, is thus described by Dean Liddell, who was formerly head-master of Westminster School:"It partakes … creature comforts. The Duke of Wellington, with his known love of simplicity, would have thought those beds a good … Beside this prison, and in its rear, ran a small narrow lane leading down to the Almonry, with a hatch and …
Old and New London
… Palace is far from being so magnificent as Versailles is, or the Tuilleries once were, yet it has about it an air of … a seat not to be contemned by the greatest monarch. It was formerly," adds the writer, "called Arlington House, and … great pomp beside her lord in the Abbey, where there was formerly a waxen figure of her, after the usual royal …
Old and New London
… London in the days when London ended at the gate of "Lud," or, at the farthest, at Temple Bar. Stow tells us that it … Essex Street and the Temple, past Temple Bar, and up Shire Lane, which bounds it on the east. The boundary line then … south side of Lincoln'sinn Fields, till it reaches Drury Lane; thence it follows to the north-west, as far as Castle …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… was named as the first bishop. The dean, William Benson or Boston, had been abbot of Westminster before the … diocese was to consist of the whole county of Middlesex, formerly in the diocese of London, except for Fulham, and the … by charter of 21 May 1560 Elizabeth I founded 'the college or collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster ... on the …
Old and New London
… Street, between it and the Park. King Street was formerly extremely, and, it would appear, even dangerously … charming song which begins: "He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires." Here, too, lived Charles, Lord … the Great Plague in 1665 broke out at the top of Drury Lane, but Dr. Hodges, in his "Letter to a Person of Quality," …
Old and New London
… Architectural Museum. The building in itself has little or nothing architectural about it to merit special mention. … in Mr. Crace's Collection.) In Tufton Street there was formerly a building devoted to the brutal and unmanly … to Peter Street, and one still narrower to St. Anne's Lane; the remainder is almost buried by houses. The architect …