The excellent and renowned history of the famous Sir Richard Whittington three times lord-mayor of the honourable City of London. Giving an account of all the remarkable and noted passages of his life. This may be printed, R.P.
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The excellent and renowned history of the famous Sir Richard Whittington three times lord-mayor of the honourable City of London. Giving an account of all the remarkable and noted passages of his life. This may be printed, R.P.
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[London :: published by J. Conyers,
1690?]
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Whittington, Richard, d. 1423 -- Early works to 1800.
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"The excellent and renowned history of the famous Sir Richard Whittington three times lord-mayor of the honourable City of London. Giving an account of all the remarkable and noted passages of his life. This may be printed, R.P." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39006.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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CHAP. VII. Of things of note that happened in his three several Mayoralties.
THE two Dukes before-mentioned were banished.
Constantinople was taken by Mahomet the second, Emperor of the Turks.
A great Tempest of Thunder and Light∣ning happened, which destroyed in divers places 600 Houses and 3000 People.
William Foxly Pot-maker to the Mint in the Tower, slept 14 days and 15 nights, and afterwards waking it seemed to him that he had slept but one night.
Great Iusts were held in the Town before the French Nobility taken Prisoners in France at the Battle of Azin Court.
Seven Dolphins came up the River of Thames, and played up and down till four of them were killed and the other three car∣ried off by the Tyde.
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A terrible and universal Earthquake, ac∣companied with Tempest of Thunder and Lightning, hap'ned for the space of six hours.
A Combat was fought before the King in Smithfield; but taken up e'er any of the parties were killed.
Paul's steeple was set on fire and burnt with Lightning, after it had been once quen∣ched with Vinegar.
And thus much for famous Whittington, and what happened whilst he filled, as her worthy praetor, the Chair of London.
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