Historical Remarks on the Ancient and Present State of the Cities of London and WestminsterM. Stace, 1810 - 178 páginas |
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Página 152 - ... upon St. James' night, certain men in the loft next under the bells, ringing of a peal, a tempest of lightning and thunder did arise, an ugly shapen sight appeared to them, coming in at the south window, and lighted on the north, for fear whereof they all fell down, and lay as dead for the time, letting the bells ring and cease of their own accord; when the ringers came to themselves, they found certain stones of the north window to be...
Página 111 - ye shall have them: they be ordained for you and shall be delivered every one each after other. Wherefore, good fellows, withdraw fair and easily to your people and cause them to depart out of London; for it is our intent that each of you by villages and townships shall have letters...
Página 139 - The Lord Mayor calmly heard all, and at last answered, your Majesty hath power to do what you please ; and your city of London will obey accordingly, but she humbly desires that when your Majesty shall remove your courts, you would please to leave the river of Thames behind you.
Página 131 - I willingly yield to your desires, and am here come to dispossess myself of all public authority and title, and to make it free and lawful for you to create for your King Henry Duke of Lancaster, my cousin german, whdm I know to be as worthy to take that place as I see you are willing to give it to him.
Página 87 - And to knit up this argument, King Edgar in his charter to the abbey of Malmesbury, dated the year of Christ 974, hath words to this effect: " All the monasteries in my realm, to the outward sight, are nothing but worm-eaten and rotten timber and boards, and that worse is, within they are almost empty, and void of Divine service.
Página 113 - Royall, called the Queen's wardrobe, where she had remained three days and two nights right sore abashed ; but when she saw the King her son she was greatly rejoiced, and said, ' Ah, son ! what great sorrow have I suffered for you this day...
Página 115 - Mary's priest of York, and now of Colchester, greeteth well John Nameless and John the Miller and John Carter, and biddeth them that they beware of guile in...
Página 131 - ... years, the time of my unfortunate reign, doth not sometimes, either for advantage, or upon displeasure, in as deep manner grieve some particular subject, I will not now examine : it helpeth not to use defence, neither booteth it to make complaint ; there is no place left for the one, nor pity for the other: and therefore I refer it to the judgment of God, and your less distempered considerations. I accuse no man, I blame no fortune, I complain of nothing...
Página 140 - As thro' в floating wood he steer'd along, And dancing castles cluster'd in a throng ; When he beheld a mighty bridge give law Unto his surges, and their fury awe ; When such a shelf of cataracts did roar, ' As if the Thames with Nile had chang'd her shore ; When he such massy walls, such towers did eye.
Página 88 - II., writing of the walls of this city, hath these words : " The wall is high and great, well towered on the north side, with due distances between the towers. On the south side also the city was walled and towered, but the fishful river of Thames, with his ebbing and flowing, hath long since subverted them.