Jacob Henry Burn
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 140
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... The plan inserted in the Gentleman's Magaziiie for April in that year denotes the site. "A iieAther Three-pence, Union in Cornhill," occurs in the sale catalogue of the coins and other articles of vertu, the property of Peter Birkhead, goldsmith and antiquary, deceased, sold in January 1743, at his house, the Queen's Head, in Grafton street, Soho; but no other has been discovered in any sale catalogue. EXECUTION DOCK, Wapping. 442 Henry Forman AT Execvtion--H. F. in a monogram. Bev. Docke Brewhovse. 1668--In the field, His HALFE PENNY. FASSON STREET, Spitalfields. 443 RICHARD NICHOLSON In Fasson--In field, a roll of silk. BeV. STREET. IN SPITTLEFEILDS--HIS HALF PENV. Fasson has since been perverted to Fashion street. FENCHURCH STREET. 444 AT The Mitetr for Mitre In--A mitre, in the field. Rev. Fenchvrch Streete--In the field, D. M. R. Daniel Rawlinson, citizen and vintner, and his wife Margaret, are the names implied by the initials. He appears to have been a staunch royalist. Dr. Richard Rawlinson, whose jacobitical principles are sufficiently on record, in a letter to Tom Hearne, the nonjuring antiquary at Oxford, says "of Daniel Rawlinson, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch street, and of whose being suspected in the Rump time I have heard much. The whigs tell this, that upon the king's murder, January 30th, 1649, he hung his sign in mourning: he certainly judged right; the honour of the mitre was much eclipsed by the loss of so good a parent to the Church of England. These rogues the whigs say, this endeared him so much to the churchmen that he strove amain, and got a good estate." Pepys, who expressed great personal fear of the plague, in his Diary, August 6th, 1666, notices that, notwithstanding Dan...