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Title: The literary history of the Adelphi and its neighbourhood
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Brereton, Austin, 1862-1922
Subjects: Literary landmarks -- England London English literature -- England London London (England) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: New York : Duffield
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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me so disreputablethat it was taken down, and a number of dwelling-houses and shops—the site of which is indicated bythe existing buildings between George Court andDurham House Street—facing the Strand, wereerected. Before leaving this part of the neighbourhood,it should be observed that at Durham Rents,which was at the back of Durham House, therewas a book-shop early in the sixteenth century, aswe see by the following announcement:— TheMyrroure of Owre Lady, Fynyshed and Impryntedin the Suburbes of the Famous Citye of London,without Temple Barre, by me Richard Fawkes,dwellynge in Durresme Rents, or else in PowlesChurch Yard, at the Synge of the A.B.C., 1530.On December 9, 1614, Thomas Wilson, traveller,author, and statesman, granted a lease to JamesBovy, Serjeant of the Cellar, of the Sill House,in the Strand, near Durham House. And, onOctober 1, 1618, there was recorded an indentureof sale from Sir Thomas Wilson, of Hertford, now residing in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 72
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ADKLPHI TKRRACE IX (lARRICRS TIME. (To/acep. jj SIR THOMAS WILSON of a dwelling-house, garden, etc., in St Martins-in-the-Fields, between Durham House, Britains Burse,York House, and the River, to Wm. Roo, ofLondon, for £374. Wilson, who was knightedin this year, was employed in obtaining admissions,that were sufficient to condemn him, from SirWalter Raleigh, then a prisoner in the Tower.Twenty-eight days after the date of the indentureof sale of Wilsons property, near Durham House,Raleigh was executed. A year later, Sir ThomasWilson, in a letter to the Chancellor of the Ex-chequer, writes from my house in Duresme Yard,and sends a list of ambassadors and other peopleresiding there. Wilson, who was a man of con-siderable learning, and a traveller, translated fromthe Spanish the Diana of George de Montemayor(the Portugese poet and romance writer, 1520-1562), the source to which Shakespeare went forseveral of the incidents in The Two Gentlemen ofVerona. He entered the service of Robert

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