Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from Wenceslaus Hollar’s maps:
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Shooter’s Hill, Kent, between the eighth and ninth milestones on the Dover road. It was long a notorious haunt of highwaymen. The custom was to leave the bodies of criminals hanging until the bones fell to the ground.
This text comes from a footnote on a diary entry in the 1893 edition edited by Henry B. Wheatley.
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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.
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