 I went all the first part of the time freely about the streets, though not so freely as to run myself into apparent danger, except when they dug the great pit in the churchyard of our parish of Aldgate. A terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my...  Historical Parallels - Page 86by Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale - London (England) - 1810 - 762 pages
...Church-yard of our parish ofAldgate. A terrible pit it was ; — about 40 foot in length, and about 15 or 1C broad, and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep ; but it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for (lie water ; for they... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810 - 778 pages
...Church-yard of our parish ofAldgate. A terrible pit it was ; — about 40 foot in length, and about 15 or 1C broad, and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep : but it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for tlie water; for they had... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1810 - 772 pages
...of our parish ofAIdgatc. A terrible pit it •was ; — about 40 foot in length, and about 15 or 16 broad, and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep : hut it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...myself into danger, except when they dug the great pit in the church-yard of our parish of Aldgate, and a terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity...about nine feet deep ; but it was said, they dug it nearly twenty feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, 'till they could go no deeper for the water... | |
 | 842 pages
...into apparent danger, except when they dog the great pit in the churchyard of our parish of Aldgate : a terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity to go and see it : as near as I mav judge, it was about forty feet in length, and about fifteen or sixteen feet broad, and near twenty... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 512 pages
...church-yard of our parish of Aldgate. A terrible pit it was — about -10 foot in length, and about 15 or 16 broad, and at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep : but it was said they dug it near 20 feet deep afterwards, in one part of it, till they could go no deeper for the water; for they had,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 728 pages
...into apparent danger, except when they dug the great pit in the church-yard of our parish of Aldgate ; a terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity to go and see it. As near as 1 гаду judge, it was about forty feet in length, and about fifteen or sixteen feet broad; and at... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 698 pages
...into apparent danger, except when they dug the great pit in the church-yard of our parish of Aldgate ; a terrible pit it was, and I could not resist my curiosity to go and seo it. As near as I may judge, it was about forty feet in length, and about fifteen or sixteen feet... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...1t was about forty feet in length , and about fiftecn or sixtecn feet broad : it was. at the time 1 first looked at it , about nine feet deep ; but it was said they dug it near twenty feet afterwards.ii De Foe. Memoirs, p. 88. (') » There were lanterns, with candles in them, placed all... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...into apparent danger, except when they dug the great pit in the churchyard oi our parish of Aldgate. A terrible pit it was, and I could" not resist my...forty feet in length, and about fifteen or sixteen ieet broad, and, at the time I first looked at it, about nine feet deep ; but it was said they dug... | |
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