 | Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 páginas
...improvement of the city, was passed in 1540, temp. Hen. VIII., which described the streets to " be very foul and full of pits and sloughs, very perilous...subjects on horseback as on foot with carriages." The streets first paved, under the statute, were Aldgate High-street, Shoe-lane, Fetter-lane, Gray's-Inn-lane,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1827 - 548 páginas
...improvement of the city, was passed in 1540, temp. Hen. VIII., which described the streets to " be very foul and full of pits and sloughs, very perilous...subjects on horseback as on foot with carriages." The streets first paved, under the statute, were Aldgate High-street, Shoe-lane, Fetter-lane, Gray's-Inn-lane,... | |
 | 1827 - 550 páginas
...improvement of the city, was passed in l540, temp. Hen. VIII., which described the streets to " be very foul and full of pits and sloughs, very perilous...subjects on horseback as on foot with carriages." The streets first paved, under the statute, were Aldgate High-street, Shoe-lane, Fetter-lane, Gray's-Inn-lane,... | |
 | 1827 - 552 páginas
...which described the streets to " be very foul and full of pits and sloughs, very perilous and noypus, as well for all the king's subjects on horseback as on foot with carriages." The streets first paved, under the statute, were Aldgate High-street, Shoe-lane, FettiT-l;i'n>, Gray's-Inn-lane,... | |
 | 1839 - 500 páginas
...description of the whole. We may however easily picture to ourselves what London must have been even in the first half of the sixteenth century, when the...the king's subjects on horseback as on foot, with carriages.1 If to the formidable inconveniences to which passengers and traffic were subjected, we... | |
 | 1844 - 776 páginas
...streets of London, in the act for improving and paving the city, passed in 1532, — that they were " very perilous and noyous, as well for all the king's...subjects on horseback as on foot, with carriages," — was not less applicable to roads in general. By the act 2 and 3 Philip and Mary, c. 8, it was enacted... | |
 | 1844 - 1424 páginas
...streets of London, in the act for improving and paving the city, passed in 1532,—that they were " very perilous and noyous, as well for all the king's subjects on horseback as on foot, with carriages,"-—was not less applicable to roads in general. By the act 2 and 3 Philip and Mary, c.... | |
 | 1844 - 772 páginas
...act for improving and paving the city, passed in 1532, — that they were " very perilous and noyons, as well for all the king's subjects on horseback as on foot, with carriages," — was not less applicable to roads in general. By the act 2 and S Philip and Mary, c. 8, it was enacted... | |
 | 1871 - 688 páginas
...We read that " the streets were very foul, and full of pits and ditches, very noisome, and perilous, as well for all the king's subjects on horseback as on foot." There has been a great improvement since those days, but we are sure that cholera, small-pox, and other... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1851 - 444 páginas
...graphic language of an Act passed in 1532, which describes the thoroughfares as " very foul, and Ml of pits and sloughs, very perilous and noyous as well...subjects, on horseback as on foot, with carriages." The antiquary and the poet may regret that in Westminster have long disappeared the ancient houses,... | |
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The streets were described, in this simply -worded statute, as " very foul, and full of pits and sloughs, so as to be mighty perillous and noyous, as well for all the king's subjects on horseback, as on foot with carriages 
