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... Wren in the year 1670 . Statues of Queen Elizabeth and King James I adorned the E. side , and statues of Charles I and Charles II the W. side , all being the work of John Bushnell . This gate was found to be a serious hindrance to the ...
... Wren in the year 1670 . Statues of Queen Elizabeth and King James I adorned the E. side , and statues of Charles I and Charles II the W. side , all being the work of John Bushnell . This gate was found to be a serious hindrance to the ...
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... Wren grouped so cleverly round that commanding dome give to London the character we appreciate to - day . An Elizabethan Londoner would probably not have recognized his city after Wren had rebuilt it . Gone were the slim spires , the ...
... Wren grouped so cleverly round that commanding dome give to London the character we appreciate to - day . An Elizabethan Londoner would probably not have recognized his city after Wren had rebuilt it . Gone were the slim spires , the ...
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... Wren Churches . GEORGIAN PERIOD . Chesterfield House . The Mansion House . Lansdowne House . Apsley House . The Bank of England . Somerset House . The Horse Guards . St. Mary le Strand . St. Martin's in the Fields . St. Mary Woolnoth ...
... Wren Churches . GEORGIAN PERIOD . Chesterfield House . The Mansion House . Lansdowne House . Apsley House . The Bank of England . Somerset House . The Horse Guards . St. Mary le Strand . St. Martin's in the Fields . St. Mary Woolnoth ...
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... Wren sought refreshment during the rebuilding of St. Paul's . Here also came Lamb and Coleridge and Southey . Apollo Court ( Fleet Street ) .- Commemorates the Apollo Club , presided over by genial Ben Jonson and held in the " Devil ...
... Wren sought refreshment during the rebuilding of St. Paul's . Here also came Lamb and Coleridge and Southey . Apollo Court ( Fleet Street ) .- Commemorates the Apollo Club , presided over by genial Ben Jonson and held in the " Devil ...
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... Wren , and Charles II laid the first stone . The cost is said to have amounted to £ 150,000 . Several fine portraits and other paintings are worthy of inspec- tion , and in the great quadrangle there is a bronze statue of Charles II by ...
... Wren , and Charles II laid the first stone . The cost is said to have amounted to £ 150,000 . Several fine portraits and other paintings are worthy of inspec- tion , and in the great quadrangle there is a bronze statue of Charles II by ...
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Page 156 - From the top of the spire, at coronations or other solemn triumphs, some for vain glory had used to throw themselves down by a rope, and so killed themselves, vainly to please other men's eyes. At the battlements of the steeple, sundry times were used their popish anthems, to call upon their Gods, with torch and taper, in the evenings. In the top of one. of the pinnacles was Lollards' Tower, where many an innocent soul had been by them cruelly tormented and murdered.
Page 147 - Young, master glazier to her majesty, feeling a sweet savour to come from thence, and seeing the same dried from all moisture, and yet the form remaining, with the hair of the head, and beard red, brought it to London to his house in Wood Street, where for a time he kept it for the sweetness, but in the end caused the sexton of that church to bury it amongst other bones taken out of their charnel, &c.
Page 147 - I have been shown the said body, so lapped in lead, close to the head and body, thrown into a waste room, amongst the old timber, lead, and other rubble. Since the which time workmen there, for their foolish pleasure, hewed off his head ; and...
Page 147 - Shene in Surrey, where it remained for a time, in what order I am not certain ; but since the dissolution of that house...
Page 96 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 140 - The Trinity House" shall mean the master, wardens, and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the parish of Deptford Strond, in the county of Kent...
Page 68 - Fields burial-ground, which the Dissenters regard as their Campo Santo, — and especially for his sake. It is said that many have made it their desire to be interred as near as possible to the spot where his remains are deposited.
Page 183 - When Henry the Eighth left the Pope in the lurch The Protestants made him head of the Church; But George's good subjects the Bloomsbury people Instead of the Church, made him head of the steeple.
Page 32 - None but a freeman of the city shall make or sell gloves. " (2) No glover shall be admitted to the freedom of the city unless with the assent of the Wardens of the trade. " (3) No one shall entice away the servant of another. " (4) If a servant in the trade shall make away with his master's chattels to the value of twelvepence, the Wardens shall make good the loss ; and if the servant refuse to be adjudged upon by the Wardens, he shall be taken before the Mayor and Aldermen.
Page 147 - Since the which time workmen there, for their foolish pleasure, hewed off his head; and Launcelot Young, master glazier to her majesty, feeling a sweet savour to come from thence, and seeing the same dried from all moisture, and yet the form remaining, with the hair of the head, and beard red, brought it to London to his house in Wood Street, where for a time he kept it for...