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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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also tells the followinggood story, under the date 1782, showing that evenat that period the circumlocution office and its redtape virtually existed:— On the occasion of hisMajesty going to Westminster, to prorogue the twoHouses, it became indispensable to convey thitherthe royal crown and the sceptre, together withvarious other articles of the state regalia. The Houses of Parliament.) THE CROWN JEWELS. 529 Master of the Jewel Office being suppressed, in coaches being provided, in which the various articles ,vhose department these dispositions previously lay,.application was made to the Lord Steward and theLord Chamberlain, praying that orders might beissued to the peeper of the jewels in the Tower, forbringing them lo Westminster on the day of the were placed, with a view to render the transporta-tion of them more private, the procession set outcircuitously from the Tower, by the New Road,entering London again at Portland Street, and soproceeded down to Westminster. The blinds were
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WILLIAM PITT. (From the Portrait by Hoppiier.) prorogation. But these great officers of State not■conceiving themselves to possess a power of inter-ference, directions were at once dispatched for thepurpose from the Home Secretary of States office.After some consultation held relative to the safestmode of conveying these royal ornaments, none ofthe Kings carriages being sent to receive them,application was next made to the magistrates atBow Street, who detached four or five stout agentsof the police for their protection. Two hackney-141—Vol. HL kept up the whole way; and after the prorogationthey returned by the same road, without experiencingany accident. But it is unquestionable that eightor ten desperate fellows, had they been apprised ofthe circumstance, might have easily overpoweredthe persons employed, and carried off the jewels.The memorable enterprise of Colonel Blood, inthe time of Charles H., who got possession of thecrown and sceptre, though he ultimately failed, was,in

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