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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g a part of Kensington, its palace, and gardens—are included in this manor . As we have already related, Knightsbridge wasthe last halting-place of Sir Thomas Wyatt andhis Kentish followers, before his foolish assault onLondon in the reign of Queen ^L^ry : and there is the block. Roger North,.in his Examen, tells usthat when the Rye House Plot became knoAA-n, theking commanded that Howard should be arrested,and that accordingly his house was searched bythe Serjeant-at-Arms, to whom he surrendered atdiscretion. He saved his own life by despicablyturning round upon the partners of his guilt. Manyallusions to his conduct on this occasion will befound in the satires and ballads of the day, ofwhich the following may be taken as an averagespecimen :-- Was it not .1 d thing That Russell and Hampden Should serve all the projects of hot-headed Tory ?But much more untowardTo appoint my Lord Howard Of his own pm-se and credit to ra-se men and money? Ktiightsbridge.) IXjRD HOWARD, OF ESCRICK. 19
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OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Knightsbridg Who at Knightsbridge did hide Those brisk boys unspyd,That at Shaftesburys whistle were ready to follow, But when aid he should bring, Like a true Brentford king,lie was here with a whoop and there with a hollo ! Through Knightsbridge passed the corpse ofHenry VIIL, on its way to its last resting-place at Windsor The fact is thus recorded in the parishbooks of St. Margarets :— Paid to the poor menthat did bere the copis (copes) and other neces-saries to Knightsbridge, when that the King wasbrought to his buryal to Wynsor, and to the menthat did ring the bells, 3 shillings. The next historical event connected with thisneighbourhood is the intended assassination of William III. by two Jacobite gentlemen—curiouslyenough, named Barclay and Perkins—in 1694.Their plan was to waylay the king on his return to Kensington from some hunting expedition, and toshoot him. The plot, however, was revealed byone of their accomplices, who met at the Swan Inn, Knights

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