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English: FRONT OF SIR PAUL PINDAR'S HOUSE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT, the arch on the right is the entry to "Half Moon Alley"

Identifier: londonbesant00besa (find matches)
Title: London
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901
Subjects: London (England) -- History London (England) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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1 ICU! Up - ^j OLD TAVERN Bacon as a very good house indeed, though the arrangement of the banqueting-room was not exactly as the philosopher would have it. The College of Christs in its old form, with the garden square beyond, was still more after the manner recommended by Bacon. It will be seen that we are now a good way removed from the Saxon Hall with the people sleeping on the floor, yet Bacons house lineally descends from that beginning. All the old houses in London were built in this way, as maybe illustrated by many which retain the old form, as well as 22 ; LONDON by those which remain. Hampton Court, for instance, built by Wolsey ; Northumberland Mouse, recently taken down;
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- FRONT OF SIR PAUL PINDER'S HOUSE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT. Gresham House, taken down a hundred years ago ; Somerset House, still standing, though much altered ; the old Navy TUDOR 225 Office, the court of which still remains ; some of the old alms-houses, notably Trinity Almshouse, in the Whitechapel Road ;Emanuel, Westminster; and the Norfolk Hospital, Greenwich, Grays Inn, Cliffords Inn, Staple Inn, Barnards Inn—whichc ontains the oldest house in London—are admirable specimen of Bacons house ; while in the old taverns, of which a few imperfect specimens still exist, we have the galleries which Bacon would construct within his court. Ift the reign of Elizabeth, while the merchants were growing richer and increasing in number and in wealth, the great nobles were gradually leaving the city. Those who remained kept up but a remnant of their former splendour. Elizabeth refusetl license for the immense number of retai

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