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Please to meet me at the Carolina Coffee-house, Birchin-lane, about eleven to-morrow, upon very particular interesting business.
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Tom's Coffee-house in Birchin-lane, Cornhill, though in the main a mercantile resort, acquired some celebrity from its having been frequented by Garrick, who, to keep up an interest in the City, appeared here about twice in a winter at 'Change time, when it was the rendezvous of young merchants.
All About Coffee 1909
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The two years which followed were passed in a house in Birchin
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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To this dismal yard, containing as much gravel as grass, and frowned upon by a board of Rules and Regulations almost as large as itself, his mother used to convoy the nurse and the little boy through the crowds that towards noon swarmed along Cornhill and Threadneedle Street; and thither she would return, after a due interval, to escort them back to Birchin
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883
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With inconceivable rapidity, they then ran up Birchin-lane, and reaching Cornhill, spread to the right and left in that great thoroughfare.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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In reply to Lady Lyndon's letter, came, in course of time, an answer from the confounded London merchants, stating that if her Ladyship would confirm by word of mouth, at their counting-house in Birchin
Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Thence homewards, staying a pretty while with my little she milliner at the end of Birchin
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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Thence homewards, staying a pretty while with my little she milliner at the end of Birchin
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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The man who died collapsed in St Michael's Alley, near Birchin Lane just off Cornhill, and another protester called police to warn them that he was not breathing.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
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The bill lies for payment at Sollai's and Co. in Birchin-lane, and if not uken up this afternoon* will bf protefled.
The Monthly Review 1776
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