The Early History of Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Soho and Their Neighborhood: Based on a Plan Drawn in 1585 and Published by the London Topographical Society in 1925The University Press, 1925 - 178 pages |
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Page 81 - Piccadilly, (which was a fair house for entertainment and gaming, and handsome gravel walks with shade, and where were an upper and lower bowlinggreen, whither very many of the nobility, and gentry of the best quality, resorted, both for exercise and conversation...
Page 110 - ... to. For the rest, the fore-court is noble, so are the stables ; and, above all, the gardens, which are incomparable by reason of the inequality of the ground, and a pretty piscina. The holly hedges on the terrace I advised the planting of.
Page 104 - Rode into the' beginning of my Lord Chancellor's new house,1 near St. James's : which common people have already called Dunkirke-house, from their opinion of his having a good bribe for the selling of that towne. And very noble I believe it will be.
Page 140 - ... to such a mad intemperance was the age come of building about a city, by far too disproportionate already to the nation : * I having in my time seen it almost as large again as it was within my memory.
Page 72 - A Pickadil is that round hem, or the several divisions set together about the skirt of a garment or other thing ; also a kinde of stiffe collar, made in fashion of a band. Hence, perhaps, the famous ordinary near St. James's, called Pickadilly, took denomination, because it was then the outmost, or skirt house of the Suburbs, that way. Others say it took name from this ; that one Higgins, a Tailor...
Page 79 - There was kept in it an ordinary of six shillings a meal, when the king's proclamation allows but two elsewhere: continual bibbing and drinking wine all day long under the trees, two or three quarrels every week.
Page 81 - Gardens was put down," writes Garrard," we have by a servant of the Lord Chamberlain's, a new Spring Gardens erected in the fields beyond the Meuse, [ie the Mews at Charing Cross,] where is built a fair house and two bowling greens, made to entertain gamesters and bowlers, at an excessive rate; for I believe it hath cost him above four thousand pounds ; a dear undertaking for a gentleman-barber. My Lord Chamberlain much frequents this place, where they bowl great matches."!
Page 92 - At Charing Cross, hard by the way, Where we (thou know'st) do sell our hay, There is a house with stairs; And there did I see coming down Such folk as are not in our town, Forty at least, in pairs.
Page 72 - Hence, perhaps, the famous ordinary near St. James's, called Pickadilly, took denomination, because it was then the outmost, or skirt house of the Suburbs, that way. Others say it took name from this ; that one Higgins, a Tailor, who built it, got most of his estate by Pickadilles, which in the last age were much worn in England.
Page 79 - Garden was by the king's command put down for one day, but by the intercession of the queen it was reprieved for this year, but hereafter it shall be no common bowling place. There was kept in it an ordinary of six shillings a meal ; continual bibbing and drinking wine all day long under the trees ; two or three quarrels every week.