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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... king , to be distributed among the poor in the several wards of London , for ... Henry the Eighth , concerning the city hospitals , vol . i . p . 122 . 1547 ... reign of king Henry the Seventh ; and , being bred to trade , and free of ...
... king , to be distributed among the poor in the several wards of London , for ... Henry the Eighth , concerning the city hospitals , vol . i . p . 122 . 1547 ... reign of king Henry the Seventh ; and , being bred to trade , and free of ...
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... reign of Henry III . The citizens elect four of their body , who on the first day of every new parliament , take ... King's Bench and Common Pleas are held in Guildhall 5 of 42 LONDON .
... reign of Henry III . The citizens elect four of their body , who on the first day of every new parliament , take ... King's Bench and Common Pleas are held in Guildhall 5 of 42 LONDON .
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... king's writ , directed to the mayor and sheriffs of London , dated at Caerlaverock , near Carlisle : since which time ... reign of Henry II . writeth , that upon the river side , between the wine in ships , and the wine to be sold in ...
... king's writ , directed to the mayor and sheriffs of London , dated at Caerlaverock , near Carlisle : since which time ... reign of Henry II . writeth , that upon the river side , between the wine in ships , and the wine to be sold in ...
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... King John ; " which might be so , " says Stow , " for I find , in a written copy of Matthew Paris's His- tory , that , in the year 1232 , Henry III . sent Hubert de Burgh , Earl of Kent , to Cornhill in London , there to answer all ...
... King John ; " which might be so , " says Stow , " for I find , in a written copy of Matthew Paris's His- tory , that , in the year 1232 , Henry III . sent Hubert de Burgh , Earl of Kent , to Cornhill in London , there to answer all ...
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... reign of Henry III . it was necessary that means should be used to recover some degree of subordination ; but it was not till the reign of his son , Edward I. that any good pur- pose was effected ; when the public spirited Henry le Wal ...
... reign of Henry III . it was necessary that means should be used to recover some degree of subordination ; but it was not till the reign of his son , Edward I. that any good pur- pose was effected ; when the public spirited Henry le Wal ...
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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.