Category: History - British
On the afternoon of January 23rd, in the year 1571, Queen Elizabeth went from her Palace of Somerset House to dine with Sir Thomas Gresham at his fine mansion in Austin Friars. She went in state with her Trumpeters and Halberdiers, but the visit was no such great mark of disti...
On the afternoon of January 23rd, in the year 1571, Queen Elizabeth went from her Palace of Somerset House to dine with Sir Thomas Gresham at his fine mansion in Austin Friars....
5. CHAPTER II.Popular faith for a long time swayed between two ultimate reasons for the Great Fire. It was either a visitation from God upon London for its vices and its lack of religion, or...
6. CHAPTER III.Many a country estate has fallen under that ban with less reason. For on the night of the 10th January 1838--a night of so hard a frost that the very water from the fire engines...
7. CHAPTER IV.To get rich quick in the shortest possible space of time with the least possible expenditure of effort is a natural ambition. To a man we want to acquire riches, and at all even...
8. CHAPTER V.The history of assurance is not a sprightly theme. It is so hedged about with details of old ordinances, tables of mortality and specimens of fire marks, as are enough to drive...
9. CHAPTER VI.It is curious that, although the idea of insurance is utterly opposed to that of gambling--the one aiming at rapid gains, the other merely at protection from loss--still insuran...
10. CHAPTER VII.An earlier chapter gave some account of the origin and beginnings of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation. It would not be in keeping with this note on the occasion of the B...