<br> The present corridor was constructed by king Richard II. Richard I. appointed two bailiffs; as an alternative of which king John gave a power by grant, of choosing yearly a mayor, from any of the twelve principal corporations, and to call two sheriffs, one in all which to be referred to as the king’s, the opposite, the city’s. In our technique to it, which was tough and dangerous enough, the next accident happened to us: our information, or postillion, a youth, was before with two of our firm, about the space of a musket-shot; we, by not following quick sufficient, had misplaced sight of our buddies; we came afterwards to the place the street divided; on the right it was down hill and marshy, on the left was a small hill: while we stopped there in doubt, and consulted which of the roads we must always take, we saw all on a sudden on our right hand some horsemen, their stature, gown, and horses, precisely resembling these of our associates; glad of getting discovered them once more, we determined to set on after them; however it happened, by God’s mercy, that although we called them, they didn’t reply us, but stored on down the marshy seventy four highway at such a charge, that their horses’ ft struck fireplace at every stretch, which made us, with cause, start to suspect they have been thieves, having had warning of such; or fairly, that they had been nocturnal specters, who, as we have been afterwards informed, are continuously seen in these places: there have been, likewise, a fantastic many Jack-w’-a-lantern, so that we had been quite seized with horror and amazement!<br>
<br> After the expulsion of the monks, it experienced many modifications; first it had a dean and prebendaries; then a bishop, who, having squandered the revenues, resigned it once more to a dean. It was this Henry, who, one hundred and sixty years after Edward the Confessor had constructed this church, took it down, an raised a whole new certainly one of beautiful architecture, supported by rows of marble columns, and its Roof Deck covered with sheets of lead, a work of fifty years before its completion. England, son of Edmund earl of Richmond, who ascending the throne on the twenty-second day of August, was crowned on the thirtieth of October following at Westminster, within the year of our Lord 1485. He died on the twenty-first of April, in the fifty third year of his age, after a reign of twenty two years, and eight months, wanting a day. Yearly some gentleman, an inhabitant of the place, is appointed sheriff; his office is to collect the public monies, to raise fines, or to make seizures, and account for it to the treasury; to attend upon the judges, and put their sentence in execution; to empannel the jury, who sit upon facts, and return their verdict to the judges, 62 (who in England are only such of the regulation, and not of the fact;) to convey the condemned to execution, and to find out in lesser causes, for the greater are tried by the judges of assize; formerly called touring judges, now judges of assize; these go their circuit by the counties twice every year to listen to causes, and pronounce sentence upon prisoners.<br>
<br> Jane Seymour. He succeeded to his father when he was however 9 years previous, and died A. D. 1553, on the sixth of July, in the sixteenth yr of his age, and of his reign the seventh, not with out suspicion of poison. 26 firm, Tobias Salander, doctor of physic, had his pocket picked of his purse, with nine crowns du soleil which doubtless was so cleverly taken from him, by an Englishman, who at all times saved very near him, that the doctor did not in the least perceive it. When the mayor goes out of the precincts of the city, a scepter, a sword, and a cap, are borne earlier than him, and he is adopted by the principal aldermen in scarlet gowns, with gold chains; himself and so they on horseback: upon their arrival at a place appointed for that purpose, where a tent is pitched, the mob start to wrestle earlier than them, two at a time; the conquerors receive rewards from the magistrates. Near this palace are seen an immense number of swans, who wander up and down the river for some miles, in nice safety; no person daring to molest, much less kill any of them, underneath penalty of a considerable effective.<br>
<br> A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a desk-cloth, which, after they’d each kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he unfold upon the desk, and after kneeling again, they both retired. A Hall, constructed by a cobbler, and bestowed on the town, where are exposed to sale 3 times in per week, corn, wool, cloth, fruits, and the like. There are a lot of different churches in this metropolis, however none so exceptional for the tombs of individuals of distinction. IX. Different devices of music, upon one among which two persons might perform at the same time. Under the same tomb lies buried Edward VI. The tomb of Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VII. Here lies queen Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, sister of king Edward V. wife of Henry VII. Here lies Henry VII. On the left hand lies Ratcliffe, a considerable suburb: on the other shore is fastened a protracted pole with rams-horns upon it, the intention of which was vulgarly stated to be, a reflection upon willful and contented cuckolds. Barking, a city in sight on the left. Camboritum, Cantabrigium, and Cantabrigia, now called Cambridge, a celebrated city, so named from the river Cam, which after washing the western aspect, playing by means of islands, turns to the east, and divides the town into two parts, which are joined by a bridge; whence its fashionable identify: previously it had the Saxon considered one of Grantbridge.<br>