bread-street-hill

Updated: July 9, 2025

Joseph Paice, of Bread-street-hill, merchant, and one of the Directors of the South-Sea company the same to whom Edwards, the Shakspeare commentator, has addressed a fine sonnet was the only pattern of consistent gallantry I have met with. He took me under his shelter at an early age, and bestowed some pains upon me. It was not his fault that I did not profit more.

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia

So fascinated was Leonard with the sight, that he could have been well content to remain all day gazing at it, but he now recollected that he had other duties to perform, and directing the waterman to land him at Queenhithe, ascended Bread-street-hill, and betook himself to Wood-street. Some rumours of the conflagration, as will be supposed, had ere this reached Mr.

William Harrison Ainsworth - Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire