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About Chancery Lane

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Chancery Lane, a long lane, running northwards from Fleet Street into Holborn; called originally New Street .
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Camlott/Camelott/Camlet

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CAMICA, Camlet, or fine Stuff, made of Camels Hair and Silk.

CAMLET, A kind of stuff made with Wool and Silk
---An Universal Etymological Dictionary. 1675

CAMBLET, or Camlet, a plain stuff, composed of a warp and woof, which is manufactured on a loom, with two treddles, as linens are.

There are camblets of several sorts, some of goats hair, both in the warp and woof; others, in which the warp is of hair, and the woof half hair and half silk; others again, in which both the warp and the woof are of wool; and lastly, some, of which the warp is of wool and the woof of thread. Some are dyed in the thread, others are dyed in the piece, others are marked or mixed; some are striped, some waved or watered, and some figured.

Camblets are proper for several uses, according to their different kinds and qualities: some serve to make garments both for men and women; some for bed curtains; others for houshold furniture, &c.
---The complete dictionary of arts and sciences. T.H. Crocker, 1764.

About Thursday 14 June 1660

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Not to over-prolong this discussion but... A consortium lent William III 1.2 million pounds. They then sold that debt (which the king owed them) as small promissory notes to the public. Voila! Paper Currency. National Debt. Ain't Central Banks great?

About Privy Garden (Whitehall Palace)

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Privy Garden, behind Whitehall, now called Whitehall Gardens, a square of ground containing 3 1/4 acres, between Parliament Street and the Thames, and appertaining to the King's Palace at Whitehall.
The Privy Garden, when Mr. Pepys was in it, was laid out into sixteen square compartments of grass, each compartment having a standing statue in the centre. The garden was concealed from the street by a lofty wall; from the river by the Stone Gallery and state apartments; from the court behind the Banqueting House by the lodgings of the chief attendants on the King; and from the Bowling-green, to which it led, by a row of lofty trees. It would appear to have been in every respect a private garden. In the original Privy Garden Charles I., when Prince of Wales, caused a dial to be set up, and by command of James I. there was written, "The Description and use of his Majesty's Dial in Whitehall Garden, by Edmund Gunter, London, 1624," 4to. It was defaced and went to ruin in King Charles II.'s time.

This place for a dial was too insecure,
Since a guard and a garden could not it defend;
For so near to the Court they will never endure
Any witness to show how their time they misspend.
Andrew Marvell.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Temple

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Temple (The). A liberty or district between Fleet Street and the Thames, and so called from the Knights Templars, who made their first London habitation in Holborn, in 1118, and removed to Fleet Street, or the New Temple, 1184. Spenser alludes to this London locality in his beautiful "Prothalamion " :—
those bricky towres
The which on Themmes brode aged back doe ryde,
Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers,
There whylome wont the Templer Knights to byde,
Till they decayd through pride.

At the downfall of the Templars, in 1313, the New Temple in Fleet Street was given by Edward II. to Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, whose tomb, in Westminster Abbey, has called forth the eulogistic criticism of the classic Flaxman. At the Earl of Pembroke's death in 1323 the property passed to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, by whom the Inner and Middle Temples were leased to the students of the Common Law, and the Outer Temple to Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter, and Lord Treasurer, beheaded by the citizens of London in 1326. No change took place when the Temple property passed to the Crown at the dissolution of religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII., and the students of the two Inns of Court remained the tenants of the Crown till 1608, when James I. by letters patent conferred the two Temples on the Benchers of the two societies and their successors for ever.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Half Moon (Strand)

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Half Moon Tavern, Cheapside,—north side by Gutter Lane, from which there was also an entrance,—a famous feasting house. In March, 1682, when Elias Ashmole presided at a great Masonic festival, he says "We all dined at the Half Moon Tavern in Cheapside, at a noble dinner prepared at the charge of the new accepted masons." It was also the scene of great rejoicings in commemoration of the Battle of Culloden. It ceased to be a tavern in 1817, having for some time been known as the New London Tavern. The name of Half Moon Passage, which led to it from Cheapside, was changed to Cooper's Row.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Seething Lane

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Seething Lane, Great Tower Street (east end) to Crutched Friars. The church of Allhallows Barking is at the corner in Tower Street Sieuthenestrate, or Suiethenestrate, is mentioned in the City records as early as A.D. 1281

About Thursday 9 May 1667

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It was Basil who was killed. They were sons of George Fielding, Earl of Desmond, and uncles of the father of Henry Fielding the novelist.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Clothworkers' Hall

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Clothworkers' Hall, on the east side of Mincing Lane, FenChurch Street; the Hall of the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of Freemen of the Art and Mystery of Clothworkers of the City of London, the twelfth on the list of the Twelve Great Companies. The original hall was destroyed in the Great Fire.
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Pepys presented in 1678 a "Loving Cup," which is used on all festive occasions. It is a large standing goblet and cover of silver, with flowers and scrolls, weighing 116 ounces.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Puddle Wharf/Dock

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Puddle Dock (originally Puddle Wharf), at the foot of St. Andrew's Hill, Upper Thames Street, Blackfriars, in Castle Baynard Ward.
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The house which Shakespeare bought in the Blackfriars, and which he bequeaths by will to his daughter, Susannah Hall, is described in the Conveyance as "abutting upon a streete leading down to Puddle Wharffe on the east part, right-against the King's Maiesty's Wardrobe".
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Three Tuns (Charing Cross)

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General Monk lodged at this tavern on a memorable occasion in 1660.

But the next morning early, February 9 (1660), the General commanded the march of his army up into the City, without advising with any of his own officers. And having placed his main guards at the old Exchange, and other convenient places, he retired himself to the Three Tuns Tavern, near Guildhall, where he dispatched his orders.—Skinner's Life of Monk, p. 233.

Three Tuns are the arms of the Vintners' Company, and were consequently a favourite sign with Vintners. Besides the Guildhall Tavern there were in the City in the 17th century the Three Tuns in Ludgate Hill, in St. Paul's Churchyard, by the Conduit in Cheapside, in Cloth Fair, in Gracechurch Street, and one or two other places; and there are half a dozen Three Tuns in the City now.

I went to a little eating or chop house called The Three Tuns, where I used to dine for 13d., including a penny to the waiter.—Jeremy Bentham, Life, p. 133.

---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Leg (King St)

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Leg Tavern, King Street, Westminster. The leg was a not infrequent sign for hosiers and bootmakers, and as they would take care that their boots and stockings were represented as fitting close and smooth, the aptness of Falstaff's simile is clear when he says that one of the reasons which made Prince Henry love Poins was that he wore "his boot very smooth, like unto the sign of the Leg." For inns the sign was very unusual.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Cardinal's Cap (Cardinal's Cap Alley)

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Cardinal's Cap Alley, Bankside, Southwark, between Blackfriars and Southwark Bridges. The place paid rent to the prior of Merton in 1468, and the site and name were still shown in the Ordnance Map of 1877.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Banqueting House (Whitehall Palace)

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The old Banqueting House was burnt down on Tuesday, January 12, 1618-1619, and the present Banqueting House, designed by Inigo Jones, commenced June 1, 1619, and finished March 31, 1622.
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The event which is most closely associated in the popular mind with Whitehall is the execution of King Charles I., which took place on January 30, 1649, on a scaffold erected in front of the Banqueting House, towards the Park. The warrant directs that he should be executed "in the open street before Whitehall." Lord Leicester tells us in his Journal that he was "beheaded at Whitehall Gate." Dugdale, in his Diary, that he was "beheaded at the gate of Whitehall;" and a broadside of the time, preserved in the British Museum, that "the King was beheaded at Whitehall Gate." There cannot, therefore, be a doubt that the scaffold was erected in front of the building facing the present Horse Guards. ... It is almost certain that Charles went out of an opening made in the centre blank window of the front, next the park. It must be remembered that all the windows were then blank. As late as 1761 the centre window only was glazed.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About The Bell (Strand)

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Bell (The), WESTMINSTER, a great tavern and stableyard on the north side of King Street, Westminster, cleared away when Great George Street was formed. It was a tavern at a very early date. In Sir John Howard's Journal of Expenses, in 1465 and 1466, are several such entries as, "My Master spent for his cotes at the Belle at Westmenstre, iijs., viijd." Pepys used to dine, and Lord Sandwich to put up, at the Bell. Sir W. Waller, in his Vindication (p. 104), describes a dinner at the Bell, of which there is also an account in Denzil Holles's Memoirs, p. 153. In Queen Anne's time the October Club used to meet here.
---London, Past and Present. H.B. Wheatley, 1891.

About Baptist Noel (3rd Viscount Campden)

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Baptist Lord Viscount Campden, was as loyal as his father to King Charles I. having raised and maintained at his own costs, troop of horse, and a company of foot in the King's service, at his then garrison at Beaver; and paid to the sequestrators 9000l. composition for his estate, besides 150l. per ann. settled on the teachers of the times. After the restoration of King Charles II. he was made Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Rutland; and departing this life at Exton, was buried on the north-side of that church, where a noble monument is erected to his memory, the statues of his Lordship, and his last Lady, standing upright between a pedestal, &c. and on two tables of black marble, are the following inscriptions:
Here resteth Baptist Noel, Lord Viscount Campden, Baron of Ridlington and Ilmington, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Rutland. His eminent loyalty to his two Sovereigns King Charles I. and II. his conjugal affection to four wives; his paternal indulgence to nineteen children; his hospitality and liberality to all that desired or deserved it, (notwithstanding inestimable losses in his estate, frequent imprisonments of his person, spoil and havock of several of his houses, besides the burning of that noble pile of Campden) have justly rendered him the admiration of his contemporaries, and the imitation of posterity. He left his life for the exchange and fruition of a better, the 29th day of October, in the LXXI. year of his age, anno domini M.DC.LXXXIII
---Peerage of England. A. Collins, 1756.

He [Sir Baptist Hicks] left no Heirs Male, whereupon this Manor [Campden] passed to Juliana his eldest Daughter, who marrying to Edward Lord Noel, he became Lord of it and dying in 1643, left it to Baptist Lord Noel, his Son and Heir who in right of his Mother was made Viscount Camden ...
---Magna Britannia. T. Cox, 1720.

About Baptist Noel (3rd Viscount Campden)

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Baptist Noel, second Viscount Campden, Lord Lieutenant of Rutlandshire. Ob. [died] 1683. Campden House was occupied in 1846 as a Ladies' School, it contained some fine rooms, of which engravings have been made.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.