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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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heir newly-erected mansion, the site of which was afterwards builtupon and called Carlisle Rents. Stow speaksof it in 1598 as Russell or Bedford House. In1704 they removed to Bedford House, Bloomsbury,of Avhich we shall speak hereafter. At the corner of Bedford Street is now thepublishing office of the Lancet. This journal wasestablished in 1823 by Mr. Thomas Wakley, who,as we learn from the Autobiographical Recol- that name—assisted him in the first seven or eightnumbers of his new journal. After a time theLancet was printed at the office of Mills, Jowett,and Mills, in Bolt Court, Fleet Street. CobbctCsRegister was printed at the same establishment,and Wakley, to some extent, made the style ofCobbett his model. At this time it Avas no un-common occurrence for four persons to meet ina little room in Millss office. Three of themmade themselves famous—William Cobbett, WilliamLawrence, and Thomas Wakley; the fourth was abarrister of the name of Keen, who used to join ;;^;;-e#:--^-^:p^
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The Strand in 1560. (From the map of Ralph Aggas.) lections of J. F. Clarke, M.R.C.S.. and manyyears on the staff of the Lancet, was the son of avillage farmer in Devonshire. As a boy he was ofa restless disposition, and anxious to go to sea.He was apprenticed to an apothecary at Taunton,but finished his indentures with two other gentle-men, one at Henley-on-Thames, and the other atBeaminster. He became a student at the unitedhospitals of Guys and St. Thomass, where SirAstley Cooper was then the popular lecturer onsurgery. He passed the College of Surgeons in1817, and from thence till 1S23 he kept a shop inthe Strand, at the east corner of Norfolk Street.His old schoolfellow, Mr. Collard—the venerablehead of the firm of pianoforte manufacturers of107—Vol. III. the party on printing nights, probably with a viewof determining whether the productions which wereabout to appear were libellous. The sanctum wasseldom violated. The printers boy was the onlyperson admitted, and he in

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