London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Том 2W. Stratford, 1805 |
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... Stow says , that the street takes its name from making or selling of Lime there ; this may be probable , but if we take the Saxon Lim , dirty , the latter explanation is more than probable ; there being no brook or water carriage for ...
... Stow says , that the street takes its name from making or selling of Lime there ; this may be probable , but if we take the Saxon Lim , dirty , the latter explanation is more than probable ; there being no brook or water carriage for ...
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... Stow , this was called Dowgate , from its descent , and was only a principal key for ships and vessels , and for loading and landing goods , & c . other authors , however , with great probability contend , that the trajectus or ferry of ...
... Stow , this was called Dowgate , from its descent , and was only a principal key for ships and vessels , and for loading and landing goods , & c . other authors , however , with great probability contend , that the trajectus or ferry of ...
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... Stow , " where merchants of Bourdeaux craned their wines out of lighters and other vessels , and there landed and made sale of them , within forty days after , until the 28th of Ed- ward I. at which time the said merchants complained ...
... Stow , " where merchants of Bourdeaux craned their wines out of lighters and other vessels , and there landed and made sale of them , within forty days after , until the 28th of Ed- ward I. at which time the said merchants complained ...
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... Stow's opinion , and though it is disputed by Mait- land , we join Stow in saying , that as this was the principal northern entrance into the city , it merited the antiquity it claimed . This ward is also divided into two districts ; Al ...
... Stow's opinion , and though it is disputed by Mait- land , we join Stow in saying , that as this was the principal northern entrance into the city , it merited the antiquity it claimed . This ward is also divided into two districts ; Al ...
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... so that he was peculiarly named THE ROYAL MERCHANT , Stow , Maitland , Postlethwayte , Ward . Sir Richard , therefore , desired his lordship to move Sir 102 LONDON . scal, acquainting him, "that there were certain ...
... so that he was peculiarly named THE ROYAL MERCHANT , Stow , Maitland , Postlethwayte , Ward . Sir Richard , therefore , desired his lordship to move Sir 102 LONDON . scal, acquainting him, "that there were certain ...
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Сторінка 321 - City was seen most flourishing, and reduced to nothing. Three days after, when this fatal fire had baffled all human counsels and endeavours in the opinion of all, it stopped as it were by a command from Heaven, and was on every side extinguished.
Сторінка 117 - Office ; and, as soon as possible afterwards, deliver in as particular an Account of their Loss or Damage, as the Nature of the Case will admit...
Сторінка 124 - But for lack of mony I cold not spede. And as I thrust the prese amonge, By froward chaunce my hood was gone, Yet for all that I stayd not longe, Tyll to the kyngs bench I was come.
Сторінка 316 - London-bridge, narrow, darksome, and dangerous to passengers from the multitude of carriages : frequent arches of strong timber crossed the street, from the tops of the houses, to keep them together, and from falling into the river.
Сторінка 389 - In my youth, I remember, devout people, as well men as women of this city, were accustomed oftentimes, especially on Fridays, weekly to walk that way purposely there to bestow their charitable alms ; every poor man or woman lying in their bed within their window, which was towards the street, open so low that every man might see them...
Сторінка 120 - On this spot a well was first made and a house of correction built thereon, by Henry Wallis, mayor of London in the year 1282.
Сторінка 321 - In the year of Christ 1666, the second day of September, eastward from hence, at the distance of 202 feet (the height of this column,) about midnight, a most terrible fire broke out, which, driven on by a high wind, not only wasted the adjacent parts, but also places very remote, with incredible noise and fury.
Сторінка 322 - ... the sewers cleansed, the streets made straight and regular, such as were steep levelled, and those too narrow made wider; markets and shambles removed to separate places. They also enacted, that every house should be built with party-walls, and all in front raised of equal height, and those walls all of square stone or brick, and that no man should delay beyond the space of seven years.
Сторінка 254 - I have neither shirt, nor suit, nor yet other clothes that are necessary for me to wear, but that be ragged, and rent too shamefully. Notwithstanding I might easily suffer that, if they would keep my body warm. But my diet also, God knoweth how slender it is at many times. And now in mine age my stomach may not away but with a few kinds of meats, which if I want I decay forthwith, and fall into coughs and diseases of my body, and cannot keep myself in health.
Сторінка 132 - IN the Name of God. Amen. In the Year of our Lord God...