ISBN: 9781153599245

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 illustra… Mehr…

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. 1888 Excerpt: ...up during the king''s trial.5 The Lord President was to be lodged at Sir '' There were then existing in the Old Palace Yard two celebrated Abraham Williams'' house, in New Palace Yard, during the trial, and to be attended by twenty officers or other gentlemen, and all proper necessaries were to be provided for him and for the king, who was also to be attended by thirty officers and gentlemen.. On this order the king was brought to London, and was lodged with Sir Robert Cotton,6 in whose house in Old Palace Yard he lived till he was removed to St. James''s for the few days prior to his execution. For his bedroom he was allotted the chamber next to Sir Robert''s study, and for his dining-room, the great chamber adjoining. The house was guarded by troops of the Parliamentary army, a guard-room capable of accommodating 200 soldiers being built for the purpose in Sir Robert''s garden near the water side, and thirty officers and other choice men were told off for personal attendance upon the king under the command of Colonel Tomlinson. The king was also allowed his own personal attendants, including several noblemen and gentlemen of his suit.7 On Friday, the 19th of January, Mr. Cook (Solicitor-General) in the absence, through illness, of Mr. Steel (Attorney-General) settled the charge to be preferred against the king, and it was read first, second, and third time, and passed. Directions were also given that the serjeant-at-arms do secure Mr Squibb''s8 gallery by such ways and means as he shall conceive meet. eating-houses, called respectively The Heaven and TIte Hell Taverns, the latter having access to Westminster Hall, but the former being the more fashionable. Some account of these is given in Pepys'' Diary, vol. i. p. 16, and Butler, in Hudibras,... Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Side-lights on the Stuarts Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153599245

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 illustra… Mehr…

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. 1888 Excerpt: ...up during the king''s trial.5 The Lord President was to be lodged at Sir '' There were then existing in the Old Palace Yard two celebrated Abraham Williams'' house, in New Palace Yard, during the trial, and to be attended by twenty officers or other gentlemen, and all proper necessaries were to be provided for him and for the king, who was also to be attended by thirty officers and gentlemen.. On this order the king was brought to London, and was lodged with Sir Robert Cotton,6 in whose house in Old Palace Yard he lived till he was removed to St. James''s for the few days prior to his execution. For his bedroom he was allotted the chamber next to Sir Robert''s study, and for his dining-room, the great chamber adjoining. The house was guarded by troops of the Parliamentary army, a guard-room capable of accommodating 200 soldiers being built for the purpose in Sir Robert''s garden near the water side, and thirty officers and other choice men were told off for personal attendance upon the king under the command of Colonel Tomlinson. The king was also allowed his own personal attendants, including several noblemen and gentlemen of his suit.7 On Friday, the 19th of January, Mr. Cook (Solicitor-General) in the absence, through illness, of Mr. Steel (Attorney-General) settled the charge to be preferred against the king, and it was read first, second, and third time, and passed. Directions were also given that the serjeant-at-arms do secure Mr Squibb''s8 gallery by such ways and means as he shall conceive meet. eating-houses, called respectively The Heaven and TIte Hell Taverns, the latter having access to Westminster Hall, but the former being the more fashionable. Some account of these is given in Pepys'' Diary, vol. i. p. 16, and Butler, in Hudibras,... Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Side-lights on the Stuarts Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <