 | B. Lambert - London (England) - 1806 - 584 pages
...Fcedera*, in which King Henry V. taking notice,'" that the high-way named Holborn, in London, was so deep and miry that many perils and hazards were thereby...burthen, to be employed at his expense, for bringing stones'for paving and mending the same.'" This shows the gradual improvement of London's suburbs. In... | |
 | John Williams (of Lewisham.) - 1828 - 500 pages
...9, p. 447 ; in which King Henry V. taking notice " that the highway named Holborn, in London, was so deep and miry, that many perils and hazards were thereby...each of twenty tons burthen, to be employed at his expence, for bringing stones for paving and mending the same." — This shews the gradual improvement... | |
 | Charles Barlow - 1772 - 544 pages
...the year 1417. In the king's order it was said, " That the highway named Holbourn, in London, was so deep and miry, that many perils and hazards were thereby...burthen, to be employed at his expense, for bringing stones for paving and mending the same." Others were paved under Henry VIII, some in the suburbs in... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - Discoveries in science - 1846 - 602 pages
...sewers, cloacee, under the streets contributed very much to facilitate the cleaning of them, yet they occasioned as well to the king's carriages passing...burthen, to be employed at his expense, for bringing stones for paving and mending the same. — Anderson's Hist, of Com. ip 244. 1 In this order the streets... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - Discoveries in science - 1846 - 582 pages
...sewers, cloacce, under the streets contributed very much to facilitate the cleaning of them, yet they occasioned as well to the king's carriages passing that way as to those of hia subjects ; he therefore ordained two vessels, each of twenty tons burthen, to be employed at his... | |
 | Henry Glynn - 1847 - 110 pages
...in 1417, Anderson, quoting an earlier writer, says, " the highway named Holborne, in London, was so deep and miry that many perils and hazards were thereby occasioned, as well to the King's carriage passing that way as to those of his subjects, he, therefore, ordained two vessels, each 20... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1855 - 1026 pages
...uncovered in 1841. Holborn was first paved in 1417, at the expense of Henry V., when the highway " was so deep and miry that many perils and hazards were thereby...carriages passing that way, as to those of his subjects." (Rymer 8 Fadera, vol. ix. p. 447.) By this road criminals were conveyed from Newgate and the Tower... | |
 | Sir Cusack Patrick Roney - Railroad tunnels - 1868 - 568 pages
...Turnemill-brook.' Holborn was first paved in 1417, at the expense of Henry V., when the highway ' was so deep and miry that many perils and hazards were thereby...carriages passing that way as to those of his subjects.' By this road criminals were conveyed from Newgate and the Tower to the gallows at St. Giles's and Tyburn... | |
 | John Timbs - East India House (London, England) - 1868 - 896 pages
...uncovered in 18 tl. Holborn was first paved in 1417, at the expense of Henry V., when the highway " was so deep and miry that many perils and hazards were thereby...the king's carriages passing that way, as to those ofliis subjects." (Rymcr's Fcodera, vol. ix. p. 447.) By this road criminals were conveyed from Newgate... | |
 | Harold Esdaile Malet, Nimrod - Coaching (Transportation) - 1876 - 458 pages
...ages, and see how they 1 In the King's Order it was said: 'the highway named Holborn, in London, was so deep and miry, that many perils and hazards were thereby...burthen, to be employed at his expense, for bringing stones for paving and mending the same.' — Anderson's History of Commerce, vol. ip 244. managed matters... | |
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London, was so deep and miry, that many perils and hazards were thereby occasioned, as well to the king's carriages passing that way as to those of his subjects ; he therefore ordained two vessels, each of twenty tons' burden, to be employed at his expense,... 
