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... ment of London took a form very little different from that by which it is at present administered . The title of Por- treve was lost in that of Bailiff , Shirereve , or Sheriff , and afterwards the office of Mayor was given to the chief ...
... ment of London took a form very little different from that by which it is at present administered . The title of Por- treve was lost in that of Bailiff , Shirereve , or Sheriff , and afterwards the office of Mayor was given to the chief ...
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... ment , the New River being brought to Islington from Am- well , in the neighbourhood of Ware , in 1613 , by Sir Hugh Middleton . In the ensuing year Smithfield was paved , and in 1615 , the sides of the principal streets , which had ...
... ment , the New River being brought to Islington from Am- well , in the neighbourhood of Ware , in 1613 , by Sir Hugh Middleton . In the ensuing year Smithfield was paved , and in 1615 , the sides of the principal streets , which had ...
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... ment which had proved so destructive . The dead - carts , as they were emphatically called , ap- pear to have been first employed about the month of July , when all the common ceremonies of interment were obliged to be dispensed with ...
... ment which had proved so destructive . The dead - carts , as they were emphatically called , ap- pear to have been first employed about the month of July , when all the common ceremonies of interment were obliged to be dispensed with ...
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... ment of the year 1710 , from the effects produced by two sermons preached by Dr. Sacheverell , which were voted in the House of Commons to be " malicious , scandalous , and seditious libels , " & c . and for which the Doctor was im ...
... ment of the year 1710 , from the effects produced by two sermons preached by Dr. Sacheverell , which were voted in the House of Commons to be " malicious , scandalous , and seditious libels , " & c . and for which the Doctor was im ...
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... ment in a shorter time than could be anticipated . Before the Bill had received the Royal Assent , which was given on the seventh of April , so much had the public mind been impressed with the idea of rapid gain , that the Company's ...
... ment in a shorter time than could be anticipated . Before the Bill had received the Royal Assent , which was given on the seventh of April , so much had the public mind been impressed with the idea of rapid gain , that the Company's ...
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Aldermen ancient Bank beautiful Bishopsgate Bishopsgate street Blackfriars Bond street Borough building called centre Chancery lane chapel Cheapside Chelsea church City of London Clerkenwell coach coffee house Common Company Cornhill Court Covent Garden curious ditto Duke east elegant erected feet Fleet street four gallery gate George's Fields grand Gray's Inn Guildhall Hackney Hall Henry Hill Holborn Horse Hospital Hyde Park Institution Islington James's King King's Bench Lambeth late Lincoln's Lombard Street London Bridge Lord Mayor magnificent ment metropolis Middlesex miles Newgate Office Oxford street painted Palace Pall Mall parish parliament Paul's persons Piccadilly present principal prison Queen river road seat shilling side situated Smithfield Society Soho Somerset place Southwark square stairs stone Strand strangers Surrey tavern Temple Thames street Theatre tion Tower town Upper village wall West Westminster Whitechapel Whitehall yard
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Sida 204 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Sida 30 - His miraculous and never enough to be acknowledged mercy, in putting a stop to it when we were in the last despair, and that all attempts for the quenching it, however industriously pursued, seemed insufficient.
Sida 364 - O vale of bliss ! O softly swelling hills ! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Sida 19 - Westminster, and their suburbs, and the general and promiscuous use of coaches there, are not only a great disturbance to his Majesty, his dearest consort the Queen, the nobility, and others of place and degree, in their passage through the streets...
Sida 203 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Sida 27 - Since this dreadful period, the plague has entirely ceased in London ; a circumstance that must be regarded as the more remarkable, when reference is made to the yearly bills of mortality, for nearly all the preceding part of the century. It will be seen from them, that scarcely a year passed without some persons falling victims to the infection ; and that in 1609 and...
Sida 136 - ... the wall, at the distance of 140 feet from the visitor, who hears his words in a loud voice, seemingly at his ear. The mere shutting of the door produces a sound like a peal of thunder rolling among the mountains.
Sida 73 - To avoid this trouble and waste, a brewer of the name of Harwood conceived the idea of making a liquor which should partake of the united flavours of ale, beer, and twopenny. He did so, and succeeded, calling it
Sida 29 - ... of it by pulling down houses as ought to have been; so that this lamentable fire in a short time became too big to be mastered by any engines, or working near it. It fell out, most unhappily too, that a violent easterly wind fomented it, and kept it burning all that day, and the night following...
Sida 30 - ... industriously pursued, seemed insufficient. His majesty then sat hourly in council, and ever since hath continued making rounds about the city, in all parts of it where the danger and mischief was greatest, till this morning...