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A48714	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	The present surveigh of London and Englands state Containing a topographicall description of all the particular forts, redoubts, breast-works, and trenches newly erected round about the citie on both sides of the river, with the severall fortifications thereof. And a perfect relation of some fatall accidents, and other disasters, which fell out in the city and countrey, during the Authors abode there. Intermingled also with certaine severall observations worthie of light and memorie. By William Lithgow.	1643		.xml	application/xml	8157	175	43	So is Westminster , the Strand , and all the liberties thereof , now taken in under the custodie of London : and their Traind Bands there , I mean of Westminster are not be trusted with neither Parliament nor Citie ; so that the quotidian guard of the Parliament come daily out of London : where they are placed in two courts of Guard , the one before the Hall in the Palace Court near to the water staires , the other Court du Guard standeth in the Parliament yard , where the Peers ascend and descend from the upper House . And now the nature of man would ever either hear or see novelties , and here a speciall one ; the Tower of London from long antiquitie , wont ever to guard the City as the Eagle keeps her yong ones from the Griffon ) but now the citie guards day and night the Tower , lest Bishop Laud , and Bishop Wren should leap out through the iron windowes to swim on Thames , and that Euripus to swallow them down , which should be a great pitie , if the Popes indulgences could prevent it : And now I recall at my first coming here , it was agitate in Parliament , to send these two ghostly fathers to new England , that the great Ocean before their arrivall there , might purget hem ( like to purgatorie ) of all the corruptions and perfidious knaveries they had done in England , with many others these twenty five yeares : This resolution was relented , which many a heart lamented : but it may be against the next spring , they will either make saile or hing .	cache/A48714.xml	txt/A48714.txt
