The world's metropolis, or, Mighty London. 2nd ser., ed. by H.S. BrookeH S Brooke 1856 |
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... Westminster Abbey The Treasury The Admiralty Banquetting Hall of Palace of Whitehall Chelsea Hospital Chelsea New Suspension Bridge Lambeth Palace Regent Street Wyld's Great Globe School for the Indigent Blind , and Bethlehem Hospital ...
... Westminster Abbey The Treasury The Admiralty Banquetting Hall of Palace of Whitehall Chelsea Hospital Chelsea New Suspension Bridge Lambeth Palace Regent Street Wyld's Great Globe School for the Indigent Blind , and Bethlehem Hospital ...
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... Westminster Abbey ; the face of the King was carved by Grinling Gibbons . Suit , with burgonet , assigned to Monk , Duke of Albemarle . Suit assigned to James II . , but evidently of William III.'s reign , from the W. R. engraved on ...
... Westminster Abbey ; the face of the King was carved by Grinling Gibbons . Suit , with burgonet , assigned to Monk , Duke of Albemarle . Suit assigned to James II . , but evidently of William III.'s reign , from the W. R. engraved on ...
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... Westminster Abbey , abbot , monks , and servants , on suspicion of theft . Whilst Edward was in Scotland , in 1303 , his treasury , then kept in the Abbey , was broken open , and robbed to the extent , it is said , of a hundred thousand ...
... Westminster Abbey , abbot , monks , and servants , on suspicion of theft . Whilst Edward was in Scotland , in 1303 , his treasury , then kept in the Abbey , was broken open , and robbed to the extent , it is said , of a hundred thousand ...
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... Westminster . No sooner were the two unfortunate children in the power of the duke protector , than his dark schemes of ambition began to develope themselves . He first caused reports to be spread of the King's illegitimacy , thereby ...
... Westminster . No sooner were the two unfortunate children in the power of the duke protector , than his dark schemes of ambition began to develope themselves . He first caused reports to be spread of the King's illegitimacy , thereby ...
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... Westminster " said he , " I was Lord High Constable and Duke of Buckingham , but now , poor Edward Bohun ! " Sir Thomas More next follows , a still more illustrious victim . The Tower seems to have had little horrors for him , unless ...
... Westminster " said he , " I was Lord High Constable and Duke of Buckingham , but now , poor Edward Bohun ! " Sir Thomas More next follows , a still more illustrious victim . The Tower seems to have had little horrors for him , unless ...
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Abbey acres Aldgate ancient Anne Anne Boleyn arches architect architecture armour Banqueting House beautiful beheaded Bishop brass bridge building built buried called centre chapel Charles Charles II church collection command compartments contains coronation Court crown death Docks Dockyard Duke Earl east edifice Edward Edward III effigy England entrance erected executed feet Fleet St formerly front Gallery gate George ground Hall Henry VIII Hospital House of Lords Inigo Jones inscription James John King King's Lady Jane Lady Jane Grey London Lord magnificent marble Mary monument Museum Newgate occupied ornamented Palace parish Park Parliament present Prince prison Queen Elizabeth reign of Henry Richard Richard II river Royal scaffold shaft shield side Sir Thomas specimens square statues stone street Suit Thames throne Tower Hill Tower of London tunnel wall-cases walls ward Westminster Westminster Abbey White Tower Whitehall William
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Сторінка 191 - Joshua to tell the gentlemen, that he would alter the Epitaph in any manner they pleased, as to the sense of it ; but he would never consent to disgrace the walls of Westminster Abbey, with an English inscription.
Сторінка 117 - Church, two Dukes between two Queenes, to wit, the Duke of Somerset and the Duke of Northumberland, between Queen Anne and Queen Katherine, all four beheaded.
Сторінка 196 - for the purchase of the Museum, or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts ; and for providing one General Repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections ; and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto.
Сторінка 189 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him.
Сторінка 131 - Tower for one night, to the end he might there accomplish the king's pleasure in such things as he had given him commandment. After which letter delivered, and the keys received, Sir James appointed the night next ensuing to destroy them, devising before and preparing the means.
Сторінка 189 - The poet is buried here standing on his feet, and the inscription was done, as Aubrey relates, "at the charge of Jack Young (afterwards knighted), who, walking here when the grave was covering, gave the fellow eighteenpence to cut it.
Сторінка 181 - Commons also being very impatient to enter), gave order for the opening of the door, upon which they all rushed in, pushed aside their competitors and placed themselves in the front rows of the gallery. They stayed there till after eleven, when the House rose...
Сторінка 191 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Сторінка 132 - ... so bewrapped them and entangled them, keeping down by force the feather-bed and pillows hard unto their mouths, that within a while...
Сторінка 118 - The badges of this king and queen, the rose and pomegranate, are engraved on various parts of the armour. On the fans of the genouilleres is the Sheaf of Arrows, the device adopted by Ferdinand, the father of Katherine, on his conquest of Granada. Henry's badges, the Portcullis, the Fleur-de-lys, and the Red Dragon, also appear ; and on the edge of the lamboys or skirts are the initials of the royal pair, " HK," united by a true-lover's knot.