London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain: Including Sketches of Its Environs, and a Topographical Account of the Most Remarkable Places in the Above County, Volume 2 |
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... Lord Mayor , Sir John Branch , in the Court of Exchequer , in the October following , the Lord Treasurer Bur- leigh , declared to him her Majesty's pleasure as to the course which the City should pursue in respect to the Proclamation ...
... Lord Mayor , Sir John Branch , in the Court of Exchequer , in the October following , the Lord Treasurer Bur- leigh , declared to him her Majesty's pleasure as to the course which the City should pursue in respect to the Proclamation ...
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... St. John's Street , afterwards called Hickes's Hall , at the sole ex- pence of Sir Baptist Hickes , who was subsequently created Lord Viscount Campden . About this time also , anno 1615 , the foot- paths of the principal streets of the ...
... St. John's Street , afterwards called Hickes's Hall , at the sole ex- pence of Sir Baptist Hickes , who was subsequently created Lord Viscount Campden . About this time also , anno 1615 , the foot- paths of the principal streets of the ...
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... Lord Mayor's Day , ' as it is popularly called , is now kept , does not by any means equal the splendid pomp with ... Sir John Norman , who built a mag- nificent barge for the purpose at his own charge , and his example being emulated ...
... Lord Mayor's Day , ' as it is popularly called , is now kept , does not by any means equal the splendid pomp with ... Sir John Norman , who built a mag- nificent barge for the purpose at his own charge , and his example being emulated ...
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... Sir John Breton , Custos 1297 1249 Roger Fitz Roger 1250 John Norman , or John Gisors 1251 Adam Basing 1252 John de Tholezan 1253 Nicholas Batt 1254 to Ralph Hardell 1258 1259 John Gysours 1260 1261 S 1262 William Fitz - Richard to ...
... Sir John Breton , Custos 1297 1249 Roger Fitz Roger 1250 John Norman , or John Gisors 1251 Adam Basing 1252 John de Tholezan 1253 Nicholas Batt 1254 to Ralph Hardell 1258 1259 John Gysours 1260 1261 S 1262 William Fitz - Richard to ...
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... Sir John Pounteney 1337 Henry D'Arcey 1338 1339 Andrew Aubrey 1340 S 1341 John de Oxynforde 1342 Symon Fraunciss 1545 John Hamond 1344 S 1345 Richard Lacer Years . 1370 1371 John Barnes 1372 John Pyell 1373 Adam de Bury 1374 Wyll . Walworth ...
... Sir John Pounteney 1337 Henry D'Arcey 1338 1339 Andrew Aubrey 1340 S 1341 John de Oxynforde 1342 Symon Fraunciss 1545 John Hamond 1344 S 1345 Richard Lacer Years . 1370 1371 John Barnes 1372 John Pyell 1373 Adam de Bury 1374 Wyll . Walworth ...
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Page 455 - The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London...
Page 292 - Bernini's design of the Louvre I would have given my skin for ; but the old reserved Italian gave me but a few minutes' view ; it was five little designs on paper, for which he hath received as many thousand pistoles.
Page 82 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Page 719 - ... and undaunted courage : and, notwithstanding he had at this time neither read books, nor conversed with men capable of giving him much instruction in the military art, all the resources which he employed in the defence of Arcot, were such as are dictated by the best masters in the science of war.
Page 1 - Then Commerce brought into the public walk The busy merchant; the big warehouse built; Raised the strong crane; choked up the loaded street With foreign plenty; and thy stream, O Thames! Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods! Chose for his grand resort.
Page 297 - Kunc me jttbet fortuna cxpeditiut philosophari;' in which recess, free from worldly affairs, he passed the greatest part of the five last following years of his life, in contemplation and studies, and principally in the consolation of the Holy Scriptures; cheerful in solitude, and as well pleased to die in the shade as in the light.
Page 517 - Public at large, that the general concerns of the Bank are in the most affluent and prosperous situation, and such as to preclude every doubt as to the security of its Notes.
Page 492 - Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow : 23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Page 279 - WORLD ; WHICH HE TRAVERSED TO REDUCE THE SUM OF HUMAN MISERY. FROM THE THRONE TO THE DUNGEON HIS NAME WAS MENTIONED WITH RESPECT, GRATITUDE, AND ADMIRATION.
Page 533 - An aft for authorizing his majesty in council to allow, during the present war, and for six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace...