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John Taylor the Water Poet, testifying in the Court of Exchequer in 1620 or 1621, said that "the game of bear-baiting hath been kept in four several [i.e. separate] places, at Mason Stairs on the Bankside, near Maid Lane by the corner of Pike Garden, at the beargarden which was parcel of the possession of William Payne, and at the place where ...
The Hope playhouse, or second Bear Garden, from Hollar's View of London (1647) — the engraver's misnaming corrected. [1] Hope playhouse depicted on Hollar's Post-conflagration map in the Crace Collection of the British Museum; the lower view is from Faithorne's Map of London (1658) The Hope Theatre is labelled in the bottom centre of this London street map.
Elizabeth City Historic District is a national historic district located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 592 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounds residential sections of Elizabeth City.
The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but lost it during ...
For a long time, the main bear-garden in London was the Paris Garden, a section of the Bankside lying to the west of The Clink, at Southwark. Henry VIII was a fan and had a bear pit constructed at his Palace of Whitehall. Elizabeth I was also fond of the entertainment; it featured
The fate of the beloved 20,000-square-foot Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita — where the city is vying to build 123 affordable housing units — may be sealed in the coming days as activists ...
Honoring his pal. Paddington Bear paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II following her death on Thursday, September 8. Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron and More React to Queen Elizabeth II’s ...
Elizabeth City is the county seat and most populous city of Pasquotank County. [6] It is the cultural, economic and educational hub of the sixteen-county Historic Albemarle region of northeastern North Carolina. [7] Elizabeth City is the center of the Elizabeth City Micropolitan Statistical Area, with a population of 64,094 as of 2010.