A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities Found in the Excavations at the New Royal Exchange, Preserved in the Museum of the Corporation of London ...: With Some Particulars and Suggestions Relating to Roman Londonuse of the members of the Corporation of the City of London [A. Taylor, printer], 1848 - 96 páginas |
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Página vii - London (a); a place not dignified with the name of a colony, but the chief residence of merchants, and the great mart of trade and commerce. At that place he meant to fix the seat of war; but reflecting on the scanty numbers of his little army, and the fatal rashness of Cerealis, he resolved to quit that station, and, by giving up one post, secure the rest of the province. Neither supplications, nor the tears of the inhabitants could induce him to change his plan. The signal for the march was given....
Página xxiii - Paul's stands, (horns of stags, and tusks of boars, having been dug up there in former times, and it is said also in later years,) would not be behind-hand in antiquity: but I must assert, that, having changed all the foundations of Old St. Paul's, and upon that occasion rummaged all the ground thereabouts, and being very desirous to find some footsteps of such a Temple, I could not discover any; and therefore can give no more credit to Diana than to Apollo."; Dr.
Página xl - ... in the course of the excavations ; it being understood that all such matters, or things, are to be taken up with all requisite care, and are to remain the property of the Gresham Committee." They found a portion of a Roman building, but the greatest haul was in an old gravel pit, some 5Oft. by 34, filled with hardened mud, in which were contained considerable quantities of animal and vegetable remains, apparently the discarded refuse of the inhabitants of the vicinity. In the same depository...
Página x - As in the fittest place, by man that could be thought, To which by Land, or Sea, provision might be brought. And such a Road for Ships scarce all the world commands, As is the goodly Tames, neer where Brute's City stands.
Página xi - Wales. first name, and was called the City of Legions, from the Roman legions which used to take up their winter quarters in it. He also made a gate of wonderful structure in Trinovantum, upon the bank of the Thames, which the citizens call after his name Billingsgate to this day. Over it he built a prodigiously large tower, and under it a haven or quay for ships. He was a strict observer of justice, and re-established his father's laws everywhere throughout the kingdom. In his days there was so...
Página viii - Sabaeus; arma Scythes; oleum palmarum divite sylva pingue solum Babylon; Nilus lapides pretiosos; Seres purpureas vestes; Galli sua vina; Norwegi, Russi varium, grysium, sabelinas"21.
Página xxi - BURTON (William). A Commentary on Antoninus, his Itinerary or Journies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain wherein the first foundation of our Cities, Lawes and Government according to the Roman Policy are clearly discovered.
Página xxii - Earthquakes break not stones to pieces; nor would the Picts be at that pains : but I imagine that the Monks, finding the Londoners pretending to a Temple of Diana where now St. Paul's stands, (horns of stags, and tusks of boars, having been dug up there in former times, and it is said also in later years,) would not be behind-hand in antiquity: but I must assert, that, having changed all the foundations of Old St. Paul's, and upon that occasion rummaged...
Página viii - ... called from the same kind of accidents. The curiosity I am speaking of is a brick, found about forty years since, twenty-eight foot deep below the pavement, by Mr. Stockley, as he was digging the foundation of an houss that he built for Mr.
Página xvii - St. Mary Wolnothes church, and then turning the course down Shareborne lane, so termed of sharing or dividing, it brake into divers rills or rillets to the river of Thames : of this bourn that ward took the name, and is till this day called Langborne ward. This bourn also is long since stopped up at the head, and the rest of the course filled up and paved over, so that no sign thereof remaineth more than the names aforesaid. [See...