London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Volume 2W. Stratford, 1805 - London (England) |
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Page 129
... monument was demolished , and every other sacrilege was committed consistently with the barbarity of the despoilers . However , some humane persons having procured the choristers ' lodgings , they were appointed for the dwellings of ...
... monument was demolished , and every other sacrilege was committed consistently with the barbarity of the despoilers . However , some humane persons having procured the choristers ' lodgings , they were appointed for the dwellings of ...
Page 130
... monument : " Like as the day his course doth consume , And the new morrow springeth again as fast ; So man and woman , by Nature's custome , This life to passe , at last in earth are cast , In joy and which here their time do waste ...
... monument : " Like as the day his course doth consume , And the new morrow springeth again as fast ; So man and woman , by Nature's custome , This life to passe , at last in earth are cast , In joy and which here their time do waste ...
Page 134
... parish for maintenance of the organ , and the organist to play upon it in the time of Divine Service , on Sundays and holidays , for ever.— Newcourt's Repertorium . 3 There There is a small monument to the memory of Dr. 134 LONDON .
... parish for maintenance of the organ , and the organist to play upon it in the time of Divine Service , on Sundays and holidays , for ever.— Newcourt's Repertorium . 3 There There is a small monument to the memory of Dr. 134 LONDON .
Page 135
... monument to the memory of Dr. Buck , a pious and learned minister , who died in 1685 . Under the organ gallery is the following inscription ; en- graven on brass , the authenticity of which being doubted , must speak for itself : " Be ...
... monument to the memory of Dr. Buck , a pious and learned minister , who died in 1685 . Under the organ gallery is the following inscription ; en- graven on brass , the authenticity of which being doubted , must speak for itself : " Be ...
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... monuments in this parish church which escaped the fire are numerous , and remarkable . Stow mentions the fol- lowing ... monument for Sir Thomas Offley , knight and alderman of VOL . II . No. 34 . London , Y London , with his wife and ...
... monuments in this parish church which escaped the fire are numerous , and remarkable . Stow mentions the fol- lowing ... monument for Sir Thomas Offley , knight and alderman of VOL . II . No. 34 . London , Y London , with his wife and ...
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Page 153 - THE UNITED COMPANY OF MERCHANTS TRADING TO THE EAST INDIES.
Page 307 - Hertynges, by the service of paying per annum one sparhawk or 2s. at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist for all service.
Page 323 - To the estates and fortunes of the citizens it was merciless, but to their lives very favourable, that it might in all things resemble the last conflagration of the world.
Page 312 - Regina,' every evening. And thereupon ordained five burning wax lights at the time of the said anthem, in the honour and reverence of the five principal joys of our Lady aforesaid, and for exciting the people to devotion at such an hour the more to merit to their souls.
Page 8 - England, as it generally is in other countries, the meanest thing the men can turn their hand to; but, on the contrary, trade is the readiest way for men to raise their fortunes and families; and therefore it is a field for men of figure and of good families to enter upon.
Page 155 - Board shall be fully authorised to superintend, direct, and control, all acts, operations, and concerns, which in any wise relate to the civil or military government or revenues of the British territorial possessions in the East Indies.
Page 128 - Where was mutch stolen gere amonge ; I saw where honge myne owne hoode, That I had lost amonge the thronge ; To by my own hood I thought it wronge, I knew it well as I dyd my crede, But for lack of mony I could not spede. The taverner tooke me by the sieve,
Page 326 - ... city, was begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the Popish faction, in order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the Protestant religion and old English liberty, and introducing Popery and slavery.
Page 216 - shall mean the master wardens and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the parish of Deptford Strond in the county of Kent...
Page 405 - This grave is made for Hodges Shaughsware, the chiefest servant to the King of Persia for the space of 20 years, who came from the King of Persia, and died in his service. If any Persian cometh out of that country, let him read this and a prayer for him, the Lord receive his soul, for here lieth Maghmote Shaughsware, who was born in the town Novoy, in Persia.