 | Alexander Andrews - 1856 - 356 pages
...every night, slit people's noses, and bid them," &c. " 9$. — Young Davenant was telling us at court how' he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they...sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's son is said to be of the gang. They are all Whigs, and a great... | |
 | ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 pages
...every night, slit people's noses, and bid them," &c. " 9th. — Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by' the Mohocks, and how they...sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's son is said to be of the gang. They are all Whigs, and a great... | |
 | Tom Taylor - 1874 - 554 pages
...night, slit people's noses, &c.; young Davenant was telling us at Court how he was set upon by them, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's ' son is said to be of the gang. They are all Whigs; and a great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 528 pages
...did not care to dine with ; so I dined with Mrs. Vanhomrigh. Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword.* It is not safe * Ever since the accession of James I. the streets of London had been infested with a set of disorderly... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 pages
...every night and slit people's nosesyoung Davenant telling us at Court how he was set upon by them, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the STATUE OF GEORGE I. AND HOGARTH'S HOUSE, I7ÇO. and rough customer, to whom William III. confided the... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 pages
...&c. ? ' In the next entry (March 9) he writes as follows : — Young Davenant was telling us at Court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran...sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's son (Thomas Burnet) is said to be of the gang. They are all Whigs... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pages
...people's noses, and bid them, &c. ? " March gth. — " . . . Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran...sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's son is said to be of the gang. They are all Whigs; and a great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1892 - 500 pages
...whom I did not care to dine 1 5 with; so I dined with Mrs. Van. Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran...sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's son is said to be of the gang. They 20 are all Whigs ; and a great... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 402 pages
...Mohocks, that play the devil about this town every night, slit people's noses, and bid them, &c. ? " how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's son is said to be of the gang. They are all Whigs; and a great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 550 pages
...whom I did not care to dine with ; so I dined with Mrs Van. Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran...sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The Bishop of Salisbury's son * is said to be of the gang. They are all Whigs ; and a great... | |
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Young Davenant was telling us at court how he was set upon by the Mohocks, and how they ran his chair through with a sword. It is not safe being in the streets at night for them. The bishop of Salisbury's son * is said to be of the gang. 
