Excerpt from Matthew Hargraves IN the year 1807, there was born to Thomas Hargraves, stout and respected landlord of the Hope and Anchor inn at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, a first and only son. A very charming little country village was the Greenwich of those days, with its Silver streak of river running through it, its great park with fine old elms, its noble palace, and its historic associa tions. In 1807, it was still a fashionable place, with Princess Sophia, the jolly, fat, generous, good natured niece of ...
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Excerpt from Matthew Hargraves IN the year 1807, there was born to Thomas Hargraves, stout and respected landlord of the Hope and Anchor inn at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, a first and only son. A very charming little country village was the Greenwich of those days, with its Silver streak of river running through it, its great park with fine old elms, its noble palace, and its historic associa tions. In 1807, it was still a fashionable place, with Princess Sophia, the jolly, fat, generous, good natured niece of George III living inthe Ranger's Lodge, and, in the summer, parties of gentlemen from the House of Commons constantly coming down on the ordnance barges to eat whitebait dinners at the Ship, the Crown and Sceptre, or on the rose-covered balcony, overlooking the water, of the Hope and Anchor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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