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  • No man can reasonably be thought a lover of his country, for roasting an ox, or burning a boot, or attending the meeting at Mile-end, or registering his name in the lumber troop.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • He was not at Mile-end with the rest, but, while that meeting was being held, broke into the Tower of London and slew the archbishop and the treasurer, for whose heads the people had cried out loudly the day before.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • The rioters went to Mile-end to the number of sixty thousand, and the

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • In this manner they passed one very violent day, and then proclamation was made that the King would meet them at Mile-end, and grant their requests.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • English tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of his soldiership I know not; except, in that country he had the honour to be the officer at a place there called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of this I am not certain.

    All’s Well That Ends Well 2004

  • The justices of Middlesex unanimously voted that it was expedient to reduce the colonies to a proper sense of their duty; but at a meeting of the freeholders of the same county, held at Mile-end, to instruct their members in Parliament, little unanimity prevailed, "much clamor arose," a protest was entered against the proposed resolutions, and only one of the sheriffs consented to sign them all.

    The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

  • In 1834, the second year of Mr. Braidwood's superintendence, the Houses of Parliament were burnt; and a most destructive fire occurred also at Mile-end.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

  • The first-named fire created general consternation, and there are many persons who can still recollect that also at Mile-end.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

  • A large vein of it is also to be met with at Mile-end and Chelsea.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

  • When the king came to the said place of Mile-end without London, he put out of his company his two brethren, the earl of Kent and sir John

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

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