Simon Eyre, 1459: he gave the tavern called the Cardinal’s Hat, in Lombard street, with a tenement annexed on the east part of the tavern, and a mansion behind the east tenement, together with an alley from Lombard street to Cornhill, with the appurtenances, all which were by him new built, toward a brotherhood of our Lady in St. Mary Woolnoth’s church. — from The Survey of London by John Stow
towards a brotherhood of our Lady in
[460] But we find the sign long before Wolsey’s time, for in 1459, Simon Eyre “Gave the Tavern called the Cardinal’s Hat in Lumbard Street, with a tenement annexed on the East part of the tavern, and a mansion behind the East tenement, together with an alley from Lumbard Street to Cornhill, with the appurtenances, all which were by him new built, towards a brotherhood of our Lady in St Mary Woolnots.”— Stow , p. 77. — from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten
the ALL but only ONE loop in
to serve us as the Symbol of certain Resurrection, to teach us that this life is not the ALL, but only ONE loop in the chain of existence, . . — from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli
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