The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County, Volumen2Thomas Maiden, 1814 |
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... Government in a Commonwealth , it again advanced with accelerated rapidity . This fact we gather from the preamble to an Act of Parliament , passed about the middle of the year 1657 , which runs thus : " Whereas the great and excessive ...
... Government in a Commonwealth , it again advanced with accelerated rapidity . This fact we gather from the preamble to an Act of Parliament , passed about the middle of the year 1657 , which runs thus : " Whereas the great and excessive ...
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... GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF LONDON AND ITS LIBERTIES ; INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CITY CHARTERS , MAGISTRACY , LAW COURTS , BISHOPS OF LONDON , & c . THE City and Liberties of London are under three distinct modes of government , Civil ...
... GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF LONDON AND ITS LIBERTIES ; INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CITY CHARTERS , MAGISTRACY , LAW COURTS , BISHOPS OF LONDON , & c . THE City and Liberties of London are under three distinct modes of government , Civil ...
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he is not only the King's representative in the Civil government of the City , but also first Commissioner of the Lieutenancy ; perpe- tual Coroner and Escheator within the City and Liberties of Lon- don , and the Borough of Southwark ...
he is not only the King's representative in the Civil government of the City , but also first Commissioner of the Lieutenancy ; perpe- tual Coroner and Escheator within the City and Liberties of Lon- don , and the Borough of Southwark ...
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the government by Aldermen is of Saxon origin , is almost de- monstrable from the Charter granted by Henry the First , within thirty - five years after the Conquest , in which all strangers are commanded " to give custom to none but to ...
the government by Aldermen is of Saxon origin , is almost de- monstrable from the Charter granted by Henry the First , within thirty - five years after the Conquest , in which all strangers are commanded " to give custom to none but to ...
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... government of the City in the Saxon times ; but there have been various opinions as to the share which the COMMONALTY , * Lett . to the Livery , p . 177 . or or Citizens at large , anciently possessed in the local 128 MIDDLESEX .
... government of the City in the Saxon times ; but there have been various opinions as to the share which the COMMONALTY , * Lett . to the Livery , p . 177 . or or Citizens at large , anciently possessed in the local 128 MIDDLESEX .
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Página 462 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 473 - England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Página 415 - Most gracious sovereign, will your Majesty be pleased so far to condescend as to permit the mayor of your loyal city of London to declare in your royal presence, on behalf of his fellow-citizens, how much the bare apprehension of your Majesty's displeasure would at all times affect their minds. The declaration of that displeasure has already filled them with inexpressible anxiety, and with the deepest affliction. Permit me, sire, to assure your Majesty, that your Majesty...
Página 481 - England think it their duty to inform the proprietors of the bank stock, as well as the 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.
Página 672 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children...
Página 265 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Página 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...
Página 301 - Gentiles' great apostle's name, With grace divine great Anna's seen to rise, An awful form, that glads a nation's eyes. Beneath her feet four mighty realms appear, And with due reverence pay their homage there) Britain and Ireland seem to owe her grace, And e'en wild India wears a smiling face.
Página 367 - Elizabeth, in the year 1558, under the appellation of " The Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of the art or mystery of Salters in London.
Página 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.