The Rebuilding of London After the Great FireJonathan Cape, 1940 - 333 pages |
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... accepted him , subject to such salary and rules as it should consider fitting , 1 and apparently no better choice could have been made . A citizen and a Merchant Taylor , Nevile was a man of standing and experience . He was a colonel in ...
... accepted him , subject to such salary and rules as it should consider fitting , 1 and apparently no better choice could have been made . A citizen and a Merchant Taylor , Nevile was a man of standing and experience . He was a colonel in ...
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... accepted and the rate was at once offered to a number of those applying for com- pensation , the comptroller having instructions to examine carefully the evidence put forward in support of the values they claimed . In May 1671 , a year ...
... accepted and the rate was at once offered to a number of those applying for com- pensation , the comptroller having instructions to examine carefully the evidence put forward in support of the values they claimed . In May 1671 , a year ...
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... accepted epitaph for the London planned by Wren . His great scheme1 was laid before the King and before Parliament , so the story runs , and accepted by both , only to be defeated by the narrow selfishness of the citizens . ' Its ...
... accepted epitaph for the London planned by Wren . His great scheme1 was laid before the King and before Parliament , so the story runs , and accepted by both , only to be defeated by the narrow selfishness of the citizens . ' Its ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON | 21 |
PLANS FOR A NEW LONDON | 40 |
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