{9} Published at 58, Holborn Hill.
{14} Here Ann Boleyn, and many other illustrious persons, languished out
their miserable hours of captivity; especially the amiable and learned,
the good Jane Gray, who was shut up in it for five months. She fell a
victim to the jealousy of Mary. Her piety, magnanimity, and conscious
innocence, afforded her invincible fortitude in this trying hour, which,
even the sight of her husband’s body, reeking from the scaffold, did not
shake.
{29} The summer of 1794 had been very dry, and a pitch-kettle, happening
to boil over at a wharf near Ratcliffe Cross, it set fire to a warehouse
containing many bags of saltpetre: this soon exploded, and the wind
blowing from the south, directed the flames towards Ratcliffe High
Street, which took fire on both sides, and more houses were consumed than
in any conflagration since the great fire in 1666. It was estimated that
upwards of four hundred families lost all their possessions, and many of
them lived in tents or booths for a considerable time after.
{65} When in Palestine, Edward nearly escaped being murdered by an
assassin, from whom he received a wound in his arm, which was given by a
poisoned dagger. It is affirmed that he owed his life to the affection
of Eleanor, his wife, who was with him, and sucked the venom out of the
wound.
{75} In the year 1813, one of the turn-cocks in Giltspur Street, found a
very unusual stoppage at the extremity of the Thames water-pipe there,
and on searching for the cause, to his great surprise found a live
salmon, which weighed about eight pounds.