The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volume 2Thomas Maiden, 1814 - Architecture |
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... City was burnt : Stow , in mentioning this fact , on the au- thority of T. Rudborne , states , that " the Citie at this time had most buildings from Ludgate toward Westminster , and little or none where the hart of the Citie is now ...
... City was burnt : Stow , in mentioning this fact , on the au- thority of T. Rudborne , states , that " the Citie at this time had most buildings from Ludgate toward Westminster , and little or none where the hart of the Citie is now ...
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... City wall broken down , for the enlarging of the Tower ; to wit , from the saide gate towards the river of Thames . " This proceeding highly offended the Londoners , and , together with the many other arbitrary acts of the Regent , led ...
... City wall broken down , for the enlarging of the Tower ; to wit , from the saide gate towards the river of Thames . " This proceeding highly offended the Londoners , and , together with the many other arbitrary acts of the Regent , led ...
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... City , the Kingdom and the Navy , and disable them from paying their taxes - They therefore prayed that they might have re- lief , and that the relief might be extended to all the Cities and Boroughs in the Kingdom . Two years ...
... City , the Kingdom and the Navy , and disable them from paying their taxes - They therefore prayed that they might have re- lief , and that the relief might be extended to all the Cities and Boroughs in the Kingdom . Two years ...
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from the streets of the City , and the banks of the Thames ; and for preventing the like nuisances in future under heavy pe- nalties . The internal improvements of the City during the reign of Henry the Fifth were considerable . About ...
from the streets of the City , and the banks of the Thames ; and for preventing the like nuisances in future under heavy pe- nalties . The internal improvements of the City during the reign of Henry the Fifth were considerable . About ...
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... City , ' with the triumphant setting up of the great Shaft , or May - pole , before the Church of St. Andrew in Cornbill , have not been so freely used as before , ' since that insurrection of youths against Aliens , on May - day , 1517 ...
... City , ' with the triumphant setting up of the great Shaft , or May - pole , before the Church of St. Andrew in Cornbill , have not been so freely used as before , ' since that insurrection of youths against Aliens , on May - day , 1517 ...
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Page 239 - Paul's," writes Sir Christopher Wren, in the ' Parentalia,' " we are told an incident was taken notice of by some people as a memorable omen : when the surveyor in person had set out upon the place the dimensions of the great dome, and fixed upon the centre, a common labourer was ordered to bring a flat stone from the heaps of rubbish (such as should first come to hand) to be laid for a mark and direction to the masons : the stone, which was immediately brought and laid down for that purpose, happened...
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Page 284 - 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.