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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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/as to be done with such worn-out, worm-eaten, votten old bits of wood ? The sticks werehoused at Westminster, and it would naturally occurtc ;Jiy intelligent person that nothing could beeasier than to allow them to be carried away forfirewood by the miserable people who live in thatneighbourliond. However, they never had been pig is not nearly over the stile yet; and the littleold woman, Britannia, hasnt got home to-night. The table of the old House of Commons, savedfrom the fire, is now in the office of the Board ofWorks, Whitehall Place. It was, it seems, part ofthe fittings of the House of Commons providedby Sir Christopher Wren, in 1706. The existenceof this relic is generally unknown, and it has notyet been figured in any notice of the House ofCommons. After the fire of 1834, the two Houses of Parlia-ment assembled in a temporary building, notunlike a barn, which was speedily run up, in orderto accommodate the Imperial Legislature. Westminster.J THE BURNING OF THE PALACE. 52>
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RUINS OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.I Interior of St. Stephens Chapel. 2. The Librarj-. 3. Cloisters. 4. House of Lords. 524 OT,D AND NEW LONDON. (Historical Retniniscenres of tha CHAPTER LX.V> . HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. ■Jura magistratusque legunt, sanctumque senatum.—Virgil, y£n. i. 426. The Origin of the Parliaments—Ladies summoned to Parliament by Proxy—Ratification of Magna Charta by Henry III.—The King gives anUnconditional Assent to the Demands of the Barons—The Mad Parliament—The Parliament of Batts—Queen Elizabeth in Parliament—The Committal of Members to the Tower—The Long Parliament—Catching the Speakers Eye— Prides Purge —The Rump—Cromwell dissolves the Long Parliament—The Little Parliament—William Lilly, the Astrologer—The Wilkes Riots—Death of theEarl of Chatham—Lord North and the American War—Lord Norths Retirement—Robbery at Lord Nugents House—The Crown iaDanger—Assassination of Mr. Spencer Pe

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