London, Volumes 5-6

Charles Knight

Charles Knight & Company, 1851 - London (England)

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Contents

• DOCTORS COMMONS: 1
• The Royal Wardrobe: 2
• THE TEMPLE CHURCH No II: 17
• Shaftesbury House Aldersgate Street now General Dis: 24
• The central Window of the Temple Church: 28
• CIIIADVERTISEMENTS: 33
• HerUds the first advertising mediums: 35
• Statue of Theseus Back View: 40
• Torso of Venus: 46
• CIVTHE EAST INDIA HOUSE: 49
• Origin of the Company of Merchant Adventurers: 54
• The Carnivora Terrace: 57
• Length of the Voyage to and from India Seventy: 61
• HISTORICAL RECOLLECTIONS OF GUILDHALL: 65
• Death of Bellasses: 66
• Discharge of Anne Askew: 68
• Jackson: 74
• CIVIC GOVERNMENT: 81
• The London Hospitals more eminent as Schools: 82
• Attempts of Charles I to soften the harshness: 87
• THE EXCISE OFFICE: 97
• CVIIITHE COMPANIES OF LONDON: 113
• The once mighty Fellowships of London Companies of London now in their Decline: 114
• Duties arising from the Connexion between: 120
• ILLUSTRATIONS: 127
• ILLUSTRATIONS: 128
• COVENT GARDEN: 129
• Powelli Theatre Covent Garden: 135
• THE ADMIRALTY AND THE TRINITY HOUSE: 145
• The Lower School at Greenwich: 155
• THE CHURCHES OF LONDON CXII THE CHURCHES OF LONDON No II: 161
• Introduction of the Lilactree about the middle: 163
• Existing Churches in London spared by the Fire 165 The Dutch Church Austin Friars 166 Persons buried in the Dutch Church Austin: 167
• Tablet to Sir William Bond and his Son: 173
• Various Means of raising the Funds for rebuild: 179
• Conspiracy in the Reign of Richard I headed by William FitzOsbert: 185
• Memorial to Sir T Crisp in the Church of: 190
• St Mary Woolnoth the first Church built: 196
• Temple of the Winds at Athens Interior of St Pancras: 205
• THE HORSE GUARDS: 209
• The Guards at Waterloo: 215
• THE OLD LONDON BOOKSELLERS: 225
• PepyBs ineffectual endeavours to comprehend: 229
• 31: 235
• EXETER HALL: 241
• Motion for the Reform of the Criminal Laws: 247
• Deatn of Sir Samuel Romilly in 1818: 248
• THE GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: 257
• Jauvis: 270
• THE THEATRES OF LONDON: 273
• Actor and Writer The Blackfriars Theatre erected in consequence: 276
• THE TREASURY J Saunders w: 289
• Scarcity of Plants known in England until: 309
• Features of the Gardens of the Sixteenth Century 312 Illustration of a popular superstition in Quiii: 313
• PRISONS AND PENITENTIARIES: 321
• 202: 323
• Newgate formerly a positive Institution for: 327
• Discipline and proceedings of the Coldbath Fields: 331
• Bill to repeal the Shoplifting Act thrown out: 334
• 336CXXII LONDON NEWSPAPERS: 337
• Capital Invested in the Daily Papers of Lon: 343
• The Newsvenders Boy: 349
• Character of Mercantile Speculation preponder: 350
• St Bartholomews Hospital newly Incorporated: 353
• 37: 359
• Failure of the fourth of Barrys Pictures: 365
• Expenditure of St Bartholomews Hospital: 370
• Average Number of Daily Admissions into the London Hospitals: 376
• Platt J Saunders J Saunders i: i
• W Weir J Saunders W Weir G L Chaik J C Platt J Saunders n W Weir C Platt: iii
• Paoe: vi
• Paoi: xv
• First mention of the University of Oxford 2: 2
• The Shops of London in themselves a very: 3
• Dislike entertained towards Dean Colet by: 8
• til war 1: 9
• General Character of the Shops in Old London: 17
• ILLUSTRATIONS: 18
• 23: 23
• SO Excise Office Broad Street: 31
• Brown: 32
• No Book Shops in London till after the Four: 34
• Extract from the Records of the Tower relating: 36
• St Marys Southwark: 41
• The Jews of Amsterdam invited by Cromwell: 42
• Fair held at Westminster in 1245: 50
• The Character and Objects of Indian Policy ele: 51
• Attempt of the Merchant Adventurers to control: 54
• View of the Old Stage and Balcony: 63
• ILLUSTRATION: 64
• First English Factory in India established at Ban: 65
• Bartholomews Hospital Anelay: 67
• Terminus of the Blackwall Railway: 70
• Atrocities committed in the Highlands by: 72
• Tablet at Allhallows Church commemorating: 79
• Barrys PicturesGrecian Harvest Home: 80
• THE COLLEGE OF ARMS: 81
• Salaries of the Members of the Heralds College 85: 85
• Barrys PicturesElysium or the State of Final Retribution: 86
• 92: 92
• Merchant Tailors School Cannon Street: 93
• Shopwindows common in the reign of: 95
• HOUSES OF THE OLD NOBILITY: 97
• House of the Dowager Duchess of York in: 99
• Music more universally appreciated and enjoyed: 100
• Execution of Protector Somerset in 15523 106: 106
• Universal practice of placing Signboards over: 110
• 111: 112
• CXXXIILBUCKINGHAM AND OLD WESTMINSTER: 113
• Paintings in the Kings Apartments at Munich: 120
• 120: 127
• CXLVIII: 129
• Rise of Concerts in the reign of Charles II Music amongst the Lower Classes in the Seven: 131
• Houses of Parliament Sublime architectural views of William Rufus Proposed minor Decorations of the New Houses of Parliament: 136
• ILLUSTRATIONS: 138
• Westminster Hall newly fronted and largely: 143
• Wells: 147
• Drawing in the possession of the Fishmongers: 153
• THE BRITISH MUSEUM Sir Hans Sloane the Founder of the British: 161
• Collection of Shells in the Museum 167: 167
• 171: 171
• I: 177
• 178: 178
• 181: 185
• Respectability of the Taverns at the West: 193
• Holi oway: 200
• 17: 204
• Accession of Members to the Stationers Com: 211
• Despotic Power exercised by the Crown over: 217
• 97: 228
• Gradual Increase of the Plague in London from: 230
• 33: 236
• 268: 237
• Paynter: 238
• THE NATIONAL GALLERY AND: 241
• 215: 243
• Characters of the three Carracci 190: 250
• Thompson: 254
• THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS: 257
• Wbaqo: 259
• Extent of London in 1720: 263
• 269: 269
• Murdon: 270
• Burrows: 274
• 276: 276
• 280: 283
• THE STOCK EXCHANGE District in which the largest Monetary and Com: 289
• Prejudice against Speculators created by: 292
• Risk incurred by Members of the Stock Exchange 298: 298
• RAILWAY TERMINI: 305
• 309The Electric Telegraph 312: 312
• 319: 319
• MILITARY LONDON: 321
• Robberies committed by Jack Cade 326 Determination of the Citizens to oppose Jack Cades Entrance into London: 328
• 89: 334
• 49: 337
• 90: 341
• J Naval Charities of London: 347
• 33: 351
• S St Georges Hospital: 353
• Stables at Tattersalls 369: 359
• Death of Richard Tattersall in 1795: 360
• 362: 362
• Courses 80: 367
• 373: 373
• 382: 382
• The Law Quarter of London: 385
• Dukes: 388
• The Goods exposed in the Drapers Shops: 391
• 394: 394
• 101: 400
• 1C1 177 193 209 220 241 257 273 289 CXX THE HORTICULTURAL AND ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETIES CXXI PRISONS AND PENITENTIA...: 401

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Page 139 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

Page 51 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.

Page 242 - Thames' waters flow. Oh what a multitude they seem'd, these flowers of London town! Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own. The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.

Page 85 - A lucid mirror, in which Nature sees All her reflected features. Bacon there Gives more than female beauty to a stone, And Chatham's eloquence to marble lips.

Page 274 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aiery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for't: these are now the fashion ; and so berattle the common stages (so they call them), that many, wearing rapiers, are afraid of goose-quills, and dare scarce come thither.

Page 50 - ... the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St.

Page 361 - On every side encountered ; in despite Of the gross fictions, chanted in the streets By wandering Rhapsodists ; and in contempt Of doubt and bold denials hourly urged Amid the wrangling schools — a SPIRIT hung, Beautiful Region ! o'er thy towns and farms...

Page 275 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...

Page 52 - Voyage set forth by the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.

Page 324 - Come, my boys, my brave boys, let us pray heartily and fight heartily. I will run the same fortunes and hazards with you. Remember, the cause is for God, and for the defence of yourselves, your wives, and children. Come, my honest brave boys, pray heartily and fight heartily, and God will bless us.

Bibliographic information

• Title: London, Volumes 5-6; London, Charles Knight
• Editor: Charles Knight
• Publisher: Charles Knight & Company, 1851