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adjoining afterwards Almoner Banqueting House Bishop British Museum building built called Cardinal Wolsey ceremony Chamber Chapel Royal Charing Cross Charles II Cock-pit Countess Countess of Portland Court Cromwell Cromwell's Crown daughter death Diary Duchess Duke Earl England Engraving erected Evelyn execution feet front Gallery Gate George gold grooms ground Hall Henry VIII Herbert Holbein Horse Guards Inigo Jones James James's Park January King Charles King Street King's Lady land late lease was granted Letters lodgings London Lord High Almoner Majesty Majesty's Masque Notes and Queries occupied Office Palace of Whitehall Parliament passage Pembroke House Pepys petitioned Portland possession premises present Prince Privy Garden Protector Queen residence river says scaffold Scotland Yard side Sir John Spring Garden stairs stone Surveyor-General term terrace thirty-one Tilt-yard took Treasury wall Westminster White Whitehall Palace Whitehall Yard William window yeoman York House York Place
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Page 229 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 368 - ALL people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice ; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, Come ye before Him, and rejoice.
Page 368 - God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee ; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests...
Page 362 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 367 - We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace and for the hope of glory.
Page 368 - And we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful...
Page 365 - For he shall give, his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 31 - The mention of my wife's arrival puts me in mind to desire you to put that compliment upon her, that her entrance into the town may be with more decency than the ways will now suffer it to be ; and, to that purpose, I pray you would quickly pass such laws as are before you, in order to the amending those ways, and that she may not find Whitehall surrounded with water.
Page 32 - Then, if we write not by each post, Think not we are unkind; Nor yet conclude our ships are lost By Dutchmen, or by wind: Our tears we'll send a speedier way, The tide shall bring 'em twice a day, With a fa, la, la, la, la.
Page 365 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.