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London, 1657. [74] Also given as Sir James Muddiford, Murford, Mudford, Moundeford, and Modyford. [75] The Dutch admiral who, in June, 1667, dashed into the Downs with a fleet of eighty "sail", and many "fire-ships", blocked up the mouths of the Medway and Thames, destroyed the fortifications at Sheerness, cut away the paltry defenses of booms and chains drawn across the rivers, and got to Chatham, on the one side, and nearly to Gravesend on the other, the king having spent in debauchery the money voted by Parliament for the proper support of the English navy. [76] General Monk and Prince Rupert were at this time commanders of the English fleet. [77] Lillie (Lilly) was the celebrated astrologer of the Protectorate, who earned great fame at that time by predicting, in June, 1645, "if now we fight, a victory stealeth upon us;" a lucky guess, signally verified in the King's defeat at Naseby. Lilly thenceforth always saw the stars favourable to the Puritans. [78] This man was originally a fishing-tackle maker in Tower Street during the reign of Charles I; but turning enthusiast, he went about prognosticating "the downfall of the King and Popery;" and as he and his predictions were all on the popular side, he became a great man with the superstitious "godly brethren" of that day. [79] Turnball, or Turnbull-street, as it is still called, had been for a century previous of infamous repute. In Beaumont and Fletcher's play, the _Knight of the Burning Pestle_, one of the ladies who is undergoing penance at the barber's, has her character sufficiently pointed out to the audience, in her declaration, that she had been "stolen from her friends in Turnball-street." [80] Anderson. Adam. _Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce._ London. 1787. [81] See chapter III. [82] More fully described in chapter XXXII. [83] See chapter XXXII. [84] Wroth, Warwick. _The London Pleasure Gardens of the 18th Century._ London, 1896. [85] There were six places, all told, bearing the name "Man's". Alexander Man was coffee maker to William III. [86] Salvandy, Narcisse-Achille. _Influence des Cafes sur les Moeurs Politiques._ [87] Singleton, Esther. _Dutch New York._ New York, 1909. (p. 132.) [88] Bishop, J. Leander. _A History of American Manufactures, 1608 to 1860._ New York, 1864. (Vol. 1; p. 259.) [89] Patterson, Robert W. _Early Society in Southern Illinois._ Chicago, 1881. [90] Andrea
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