Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465542302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
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Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes. This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designations. In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices. But these decorations went out of fashion in time, and the tavern, somewhat changing its external features, though preserving all its internal comforts and accommodation, assumed the name of the Three Crowns, under which title it continued until the accession of Elizabeth, when it became (by a slight modification) the Three Cranes; and so remained in the days of her successor, and, indeed, long afterwards. Not that the last-adopted denomination had any reference, as might be supposed, to the three huge wooden instruments on the wharf, employed with ropes and pulleys to unload the lighters and other vessels that brought up butts and hogsheads of wine from the larger craft below Bridge, and constantly thronged the banks; though, no doubt, they indirectly suggested it. The Three Cranes depicted on the large signboard, suspended in front of the tavern, were long-necked, long-beaked birds, each with a golden fish in its bill.
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance (Complete)
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465542302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes. This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designations. In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices. But these decorations went out of fashion in time, and the tavern, somewhat changing its external features, though preserving all its internal comforts and accommodation, assumed the name of the Three Crowns, under which title it continued until the accession of Elizabeth, when it became (by a slight modification) the Three Cranes; and so remained in the days of her successor, and, indeed, long afterwards. Not that the last-adopted denomination had any reference, as might be supposed, to the three huge wooden instruments on the wharf, employed with ropes and pulleys to unload the lighters and other vessels that brought up butts and hogsheads of wine from the larger craft below Bridge, and constantly thronged the banks; though, no doubt, they indirectly suggested it. The Three Cranes depicted on the large signboard, suspended in front of the tavern, were long-necked, long-beaked birds, each with a golden fish in its bill.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465542302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes. This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designations. In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices. But these decorations went out of fashion in time, and the tavern, somewhat changing its external features, though preserving all its internal comforts and accommodation, assumed the name of the Three Crowns, under which title it continued until the accession of Elizabeth, when it became (by a slight modification) the Three Cranes; and so remained in the days of her successor, and, indeed, long afterwards. Not that the last-adopted denomination had any reference, as might be supposed, to the three huge wooden instruments on the wharf, employed with ropes and pulleys to unload the lighters and other vessels that brought up butts and hogsheads of wine from the larger craft below Bridge, and constantly thronged the banks; though, no doubt, they indirectly suggested it. The Three Cranes depicted on the large signboard, suspended in front of the tavern, were long-necked, long-beaked birds, each with a golden fish in its bill.
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2
Author: William Ainsworth
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041432015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041432015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Star-chamber
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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance
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The Star-Chamber
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Pages : 280
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Guy Fawkes; Or, The Gunpowder Treason. An Historical Romance
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard
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Category : Gunpowder Plot, 1605 Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard
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Category : Gunpowder Plot, 1605 Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Star Chamber
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The Lord Mayor of London
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The Spanish Match
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Pages : 334
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Pages : 334
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Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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