Mile-End

Mile-End, and promised to abolish villeinage in England.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

They took him at his word, and the whole immense mass began to set itself in motion toward Mile-End.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

-- A meeting appointed with the rioters at Mile-End.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

'Well, Wally,' resumed the old man, after a short pause: 'not being like the Savages who came on Robinson Crusoe's Island, we can't live on a man who asks for change for a sovereign, and a woman who inquires the way to Mile-End Turnpike.

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

There was a certain place in the suburbs of London known by the name of Mile-End -- so called, perhaps, because it was at the end of a mile from some place or other.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

Tower to the leaders of the insurgents with directions to say to them that if they would all go to Mile-End, he would come out and meet them there.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

As soon as he came to the meadow at Mile-End, where the insurgents had now assembled to the number of sixteen thousand, he rode forward boldly into the midst of them, and opened the conference at once by asking them what they desired.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

Thus, in the present instance, although a great number of the rebels were satisfied with the promises made by the king at Mile-End, and so went home, multitudes still remained.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

This last party, as soon as the king and his attendants had gone to Mile-End, succeeded in forcing their way in through the gates, which, it seems, had not been left properly guarded, and thus gained possession of the Tower.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

In the mean time, the king, followed by a numerous train of attendants, had proceeded to Mile-End, and there met the insurgents, who had assembled in a vast concourse to receive him.

Richard II Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841