London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation, Volume 1W. Stratford, 1805 - London (England) |
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... brought into the public Walk The busy Merchant ; the big Warehouse built ; Rais'd the strong Crane ; choak'd up the loaded Street With Foreign Plenty ; and thy Stream , O Thames , Large , gentle , deep , majestic , King of Floods ...
... brought into the public Walk The busy Merchant ; the big Warehouse built ; Rais'd the strong Crane ; choak'd up the loaded Street With Foreign Plenty ; and thy Stream , O Thames , Large , gentle , deep , majestic , King of Floods ...
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... brought over with many others by the Romans in the reign of Claudius the emperor , and conjecture ( for a liberty of guessing may be indulged to me , as well as to others that maintain different hypothesis ) that it was killed in some ...
... brought over with many others by the Romans in the reign of Claudius the emperor , and conjecture ( for a liberty of guessing may be indulged to me , as well as to others that maintain different hypothesis ) that it was killed in some ...
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... brought under the regulation of wards and precincts , for the well ordering and governing the city . And as this king constituted the office of sheriffs the nature of the office made it necessary to have it also in London . So that here ...
... brought under the regulation of wards and precincts , for the well ordering and governing the city . And as this king constituted the office of sheriffs the nature of the office made it necessary to have it also in London . So that here ...
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... brought to London bridge - street By the issue of the field and bars of Smithfield By toll raised at the city gates , and duties on the river of Thames , westward of the bridge By stallages duties arising from the markets of Westcheap ...
... brought to London bridge - street By the issue of the field and bars of Smithfield By toll raised at the city gates , and duties on the river of Thames , westward of the bridge By stallages duties arising from the markets of Westcheap ...
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... brought , together with the flesh , to the said city to be sold : and if any butcher shall presume any thing rashly against this ordinance , let him incur forfeiture of the flesh of the creatures which he hath caused to be slain on this ...
... brought , together with the flesh , to the said city to be sold : and if any butcher shall presume any thing rashly against this ordinance , let him incur forfeiture of the flesh of the creatures which he hath caused to be slain on this ...
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Page 158 - God's goodness the same is perceived to be in better estate universally, than hath bren in man's memory ; yet where there are such great multitudes of people brought to inhabit in small rooms, whereof a great part are seen very poor, yea, such as must live of begging or by worse means, and they heaped up together, and in a sort smothered, with many families of children and servants in one house or small tenement...
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