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Title: The popular history of England; an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953
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Publisher: London : James Sangster & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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doverthrowing. The Speakers official residence was also partially destroyed.There was one time when the destruction of Westminster Hall seemed almostinevitable. To those who mixed amongst the crowd in Palace Yard, and knev? * Anuual Register for 1834, p. 142. 1834.) HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT DESTROYED BY FIRE. 349 that the antiquities of a nation are amongst its best possessions, it was trulygratifying to witness the intense anxiety of all classes of people to preservethis building, associated with so many grand historical scenes. Save theHall! Save the Hall! was the universal cry. There was a more efficientinterposition than the destruction of the House of Lords to the purpose ofthe two peers to enter the lists where the Mowbray and Bolingbroke ofmodern times were to decide their quarrel. The king has thrown his warder down. William the Fourth, without a word of preparation, intimated to lordMelbourne, on the 14th of November, that his ministry waa at an end. o xn CO O W P5O HK ;?; o w CO
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