Analytical index to ... the Remembrancia, preserved among the archives of the city of London [compiled by W.H. and H.C. Overall]. |
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Page 354 - Priory,—" the Church being pulled downe, many houses have bene their builded for the lodgings of noblemen, of straungers borne and other; and neare thereunto are builded two publique houses for the acting and shewe of comedies, tragedies and histories, for recreation, whereof the one is called the Courtein, the other the Theatre, both standing on the south-west side towards the Field,
Page 66 - Norfolk, and in 1586 he was one of the commissioners for the trial of Mary Queen of Scots, and was selected to inform her of the sentence pronounced against her.
Page 30 - Come, that shall breed no difference ; you see , Charles has given o'er the world ; I'll undertake, And with much ease, to buy his birth-right of him For a dry-fat of new books...
Page 468 - ... good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the whole kingdom in danger...
Page 408 - ... Letter from Lord Hunsdon to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, recommending the employment of Captain Allen Lewis to train and view the arms and weapons kept in private houses of citizens, and to be allowed to receive 6d. a year from each householder for that service. I2th October, 1594. II. 41. Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, bringing to their notice the decay of the piers at Whitby, in Yorkshire, and the distress in trade therefrom, and soliciting...
Page 405 - Chamber, reciting that an account had been given them by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London and the Justices of the Peace of...
Page 13 - The mansion was built in the early part of the reign of Charles I. by Sir Edward Stradling, on ground then called Oldwick close, and sold to Mr.
Page 350 - Christmas, they required them forthwith to suffer the players to practice such plays, in such sort, and in the usual places, as they had been accustomed...
Page 333 - More field: this he did for burial and ease of such parishes in London as wanted ground convenient within their parishes.
Page 336 - ... therein, and for preventing their going abroad ; that all infected houses were marked, the streets thoroughly cleansed, and a sufficient number of discreet persons appointed to see the same done. They desired to express Her Majesty's surprise that no house or hospital had been built without the City, in some remote place, to which the infected people might be removed, although other cities of less antiquity, fame, wealth, and reputation, had provided themselves with such places, whereby the lives...