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共 42 段- Upon this invitation, I drank of my visitor’s tankard; and b
- “I must here entreat your patience, Mr. Geoffrey Barbican, t
- “Maitland, however, cannot be brought to believe in the foun
- “‘At Easter, the diversion is prosecuted on the water; a tar
- “‘John, by the Grace of God, King of England, &c. to his fai
- “Let me remark to you, however, Mr. Barbican, as touching th
- “In the same National depository of invaluable records, Mr.
- “Such, then, being the purposes to which Bridges were once
- “In this volume then, on page 316, column 2, we find it stat
- “‘The King to his beloved the Mayor and Sheriffs, and to his
- “Tranquillise your perturbed feelings, my good Sir,” replied
- “Of the actual time when Sir David Lindsay came to England t
- “As the political troubles which succeeded the appearance of
- “‘Also in this yere, that is to say the xxviij day of Octobr
- “From these scanty notices of misery, infatuation, and crime
- “The possessions of London Bridge, at Stratford, have been a
- “We must now set sail again on the ocean of English History,
- “One of the bravest defenders of London Bridge was Ralph Joc
- “Hitherto, Mr. Geoffrey Barbican, I have quoted you an abund
- “We have thus come down to the times of that most eminent an
- “The next view which we find representing London Bridge, is
- “Yes, Master Postern,” said I, “he does so; and that same ‘v
- “But to pass from these unhappy subjects to the story of Lon
- “I am inclined to think, Mr. Barnaby Postern, that there hav
- “Independently of these views, we have another very strong e
- “A curious invention, which, very probably, was never carrie
- “Truly, Mr. Barbican,” answered the Antiquary, as I conclude
- “Bloome, the continuator of Stow, to whose labours we are in
- “A very melancholy instance of suicide which took place in A
- ‘Doll every day had walk’d these treacherous roads;
- “Gates and toll-houses were to be erected on, or near, Londo
- presented a truly ruinous prospect; for nearly all the centr
- “I am aware,” replied the placid Mr. Postern, whom there see
- “The ‘_Gazetteer_’ for Monday, Dec. 28th, 1767, informs us t
- “As I do not find that the famous Frost of 1794 produced any
- “This Plan, however, having led Mr. Dodd attentively to surv
- “I come now, Mr. Barbican, to speak of the last Fair held on
- “On July 4th, however, 1823,--the 4th year of George IV. Cha
- “This erection was divided into four principal parts, consis
- I concluded these lines of Pope’s “_Windsor Forest_” with so
- LONDON BRIDGE,
- Vincent, Thomas, his account of the Fire of London, 443.