Memorials of Temple Bar; with some account of Fleet street, and the parishes of st. Dunstan and st. Bride, London |
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... Westminster . Another sepulchral monument , found by Wren himself , is in the Ashmolean Museum , at Oxford . The Fleet has from first to last been productive in the greatest extent , but it would take up too much room to mention the ...
... Westminster . Another sepulchral monument , found by Wren himself , is in the Ashmolean Museum , at Oxford . The Fleet has from first to last been productive in the greatest extent , but it would take up too much room to mention the ...
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... Westminster petitioned Edward the Second , that the way between " la Barre du Novel Temple de Londres , " and the Palace , was so bad , that in the rainy season , they were greatly interrupted , especially by thickets and bushes , to ...
... Westminster petitioned Edward the Second , that the way between " la Barre du Novel Temple de Londres , " and the Palace , was so bad , that in the rainy season , they were greatly interrupted , especially by thickets and bushes , to ...
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... Westminster , with its rich gardens , trees , watercourses and fields beyond , extending far north- wards , while on the south and west are to be seen the Abbey of Westminster , and the ancient palace of our Kings , with surrounding ...
... Westminster , with its rich gardens , trees , watercourses and fields beyond , extending far north- wards , while on the south and west are to be seen the Abbey of Westminster , and the ancient palace of our Kings , with surrounding ...
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... Westminster bounds extended to the place now covered by Farringdon Street and Bridge Street . In 1222 , a decree for terminating the ecclesiastical franchise dispute between the Abbey of Westminster and the See of London , marks the ...
... Westminster bounds extended to the place now covered by Farringdon Street and Bridge Street . In 1222 , a decree for terminating the ecclesiastical franchise dispute between the Abbey of Westminster and the See of London , marks the ...
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... Westminster was not only very near being impassable for the rubbish and filth placed in it , but was very likely to breed infection , if not at once remedied . In the British Museum is a curious document which , written in the reign of ...
... Westminster was not only very near being impassable for the rubbish and filth placed in it , but was very likely to breed infection , if not at once remedied . In the British Museum is a curious document which , written in the reign of ...
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