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Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sedduring the present century :— The time shall come when seas of bloodShall mingle with a greater flood :Great noise shall there be heard ; great shouts and cries,And seas shall thunder louder than the skies;Then shall three lions fight with three, and bringJoy to a people, honour to a king.That fiery year as soon as oerPeace shall then be as before ;Plenty shall everywhere be found.And men with swords shall plough the ground. Camden Town.l THE MOTHER RED CAR The craven heart of James I. was not less dis-turbed than that of his masculine predecessor,Elizabeth, by the prophecy of the weird-woman,Mother Shipton, that— Before the good folk of this kingdom be undone,Shall Highgate Hill stand in the midst of London. 3^3 We learn from the Morning Post, of 1776, thatthe open space opposite the Mother Red Cap was at one time intended to have been made asecond Tyburn. Orders have been given fromthe Secretary of States office that the criminalscapitally convicted at the Old Bailey shall in
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It is the wont of superficial writers to say thatJames despised this and other prophecies of thelike kind ; but it is a fact that under him all sortsof legal enactments were passed which forbade anyfurther additions to London in the way of building.Though these enactments were defied to a verygreat extent, yet no doubt they helped for many2- long day to keep the metropolis within verymanageable limits down to the time of the GreatFire of 1666A19 . future be executed at the cross road near the Mother Red Cap inn, the half-way house toHampstead, and that no galleries, scaffolds, orother temporary stages be built near the place. At the beginning of the present century the Mother Red Cap was a constant resort formany a Londoner who desired to inhale the freshair, and enjoy the quiet of the country, for at thattime the old tavern—which, by the way, was alsoknown as the half-way house to Highgate and 3^4 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Camden Town. Hampstead—Stood almost in the open fields, andwas

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