London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
Anonymous
London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
MONTAGUE _court_, 1. Bishopsgate street. 2. Little Britain. 3. Montague
street, Spitalfields. 4. Petticoat lane.
MONTAGUE HOUSE, in Great Russel street, a noble building, with a very
spacious court yard before it. His Grace the late Duke of Montague
having built another house in the Privy Garden at Whitehall, this
edifice was let for the use of the King’s great wardrobe, and is since
purchased by authority of Parliament, to be a repository for the Cotton
library, and for the natural and artificial curiosities, medals, coins,
printed books, and manuscripts, bought by the public of the executors of
the late Sir Hans Sloane, the late Lord Oxford, &c. _Stowe’s Survey,
last edition._ See the article BRITISH MUSEUM.
MONTAGUE _street_, Brick lane, Spitalfields.
MONTH’S _alley_, St. Catharine’s lane.
_The End of the_ FOURTH VOLUME.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. 112, changed “pent-houses” to “pest-houses”.
2. P. 310, changed “Town Clerk, &c. their several coaches” to “Town
Clerk, &c. in their several coaches”.
3. All spelling errors were left uncorrected.
4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
5. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript
character, e.g. M^r.
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