 The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us !" writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first...  The Quarterly Review - Page 141edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1921 - 726 pages
...under date of June 7, 1665, when the great plague was raging, makes this entry in his diary: "This day, much against my will, I did, in Drury Lane, see two...doors, and 'Lord have mercy upon us!' writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put... | |
 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Agriculture - 1921 - 834 pages
...Plague year, and notes in his Diary, June 6, 1665 :— " This day, much against my will, I did in Drnry Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross...doors, and ' Lord, have mercy upon us' writ there." Howes writes in 1631: " The Street is now called " ' Prince's Street.' " But if so the name did not... | |
 | Carl Avery Werner - Tobacco - 1922 - 488 pages
...following under date of 7th of June, 1665 : "The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two...doors, and 'Lord, have mercy upon us !' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1923 - 366 pages
...upon our Captain's, Wilkinson, and Lieutenant's yielding, but of this there is no certainty. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane -see two...doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ -there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put... | |
 | Joseph McFarland - Communicable diseases - 1924 - 328 pages
...gone into the country, is forced to stay in town a day or two, or three, . . . June 7th. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon Jhe doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us.!" writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - American literature - 1924 - 996 pages
...opportunity of giving a first-hand picture of the stricken city, with its death-carts, and its closed houses "marked with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy upon us' writ there," which, he adds, " put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1926 - 1258 pages
...exceedingly, through the greatness of the heat. Then despairing of her coming home, I to bed. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two...the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put... | |
 | Donald Culross Peattie - Food industry and trade - 1926 - 334 pages
...during the Great Plague in 1665. Samuel Pepys in his diary, under June 7, 1665, records: "This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane, see two...with a red cross upon the doors and 'Lord have mercy' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever... | |
 | Lent Dayton Upson - Municipal government - 1926 - 616 pages
...Public Health Association (annual) and American Journal of Public Health (monthly). 3 '' This day ... I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked...with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy on us' writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that, to my remembrance,... | |
 | Lent Dayton Upson - Municipal government - 1926 - 616 pages
...Public Health Association (annual) and American Journal of Public Health (monthly). "'This day ... I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked...with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy on us' writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that, to my remembrance,... | |
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