This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ... lament his folly. He was summoned by a herald to submit; which he agreed to do, requesting that it might be to a gentleman; and accordingly yielded himself to Sir Maurice Berkeley, or Sir Clement Parton Bell The Bell Savage continues an inn to this day: Savage, the sign is disused. Stow says that it received its name ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ... lament his folly. He was summoned by a herald to submit; which he agreed to do, requesting that it might be to a gentleman; and accordingly yielded himself to Sir Maurice Berkeley, or Sir Clement Parton Bell The Bell Savage continues an inn to this day: Savage, the sign is disused. Stow says that it received its name from one Isabella Savage, who had given the house to the company of Cutlers. The painter gave it a very diverting origin, deriving it from a Bell and a Wild Man; so painted a bell, with a savage man standing by it. The Spectator alone gives the real derivation; which is from La Belle Sauvage, a beautiful woman, described in an old French romance as being found in a wilderness in a savage state, f Old Bailey. On the outside of Ludgatc, the street called the Old Bailey runs parallel with the walls as far as Newgate. In this street stood Sydneyhouse (at present occupied by a coach-maker) once the residence of the Sydtiies, till they removed to Leicester-house. The Sessions-house, Fuller's Church History, book xvi. p. 14. f Spectator, vol. i. N" -8. J Mr-Brooke, Somerset HeraH OLD BAILEY. SURGEONS THEATRE. S21 in which criminals of the county of Middlesex, and the whole capital, are tried, is a very elegant building, erected within these few years. The entrance into the area is narrow, to prevent a sudden ingress of mob. Above it is the figure of Justice. Every precaution has been taken to keep the court airy, and to prevent the effect of the effluvia arising from that dreadful disorder the gaol-fever. The havoke it made in May 1750, was a melancholy admonition to those interested in every court of justice. At that time my respected kinsman Sir Samuel Pennant, lord mayor; baron Clarke; Sir Thomas Abney, judge of the common-pleas; the und...
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