...there was here and there a ragged house, the lurking place for cut-throats ; insomuch, that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackney coach, to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings at his house in George Street, but I went in dread the whole way." The south side was built as far...

...Princes-street eastward as far as Highstreet St. Giles's, had only a few houses on the north side. I remember it a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs: with here...the lurking-place of cut-throats: insomuch that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackney-coach, to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings at...

...sloughs ; with here and there a ragged house, the lurking place of cut-throats, insomuch that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackney coach, to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings at his house in George Street, but I went in dread the whole way." During the Civil Wars, in 1642,...

...deep hollow road, and full of sloughs ; there was here and there a ragged house, the lurking place for cut-throats ; insomuch that I was never taken that...hackney coach, to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings at his house in George Street, but I went in dread the whole way." The south side was built as far...

...almost unbuilt on the north side. I remember there a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs : there was here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats; insomuch, that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackneycoach, to a worthy uncle's who gave me lodgings at...

...Holborn and many othes leading thoroughfares in a similar interval. Pennant writes : — "I remember it a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs, -with here...a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats." On the north side of Oxford-street is Rathlone-place, a street of handsome shops, but which is chiefly...

...buildings: the zi^zng way from Vere-street (now M¿nlebone-lane) leading from the high-road to the village. of sloughs ; with here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats:" insomuch that he "never was taken that way by night," in a hackney-coach, to his uncle's in George-street, but he...

...1718," an inscription evidently coeval with the date upon it. Pennant says, "I remember Oxford-street a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs; with here...the lurking-place of cut-throats; insomuch that I never was taken that way by night, in my hackney-coach to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings in...

...Saint Giles's, had only a few houses on the north side, and the roadway is described by Pennant as a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs, with here and there a rugged house, the lurking place of cutthroats, insomuch so, says the same authority, that he never...

...High Street, St. Giles's, harl only a few houses on the north side. " I remember it," says Pennant, " a deep hollow road and full of sloughs, with here...insomuch that I was never taken that way by night, in my hackney-coach, to a worthy uncle's who gave me lodgings at his house in George Street, but I went in...