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The Environs of London
… The name has undergone several changes. In the Conqueror's Survey, it is called Patricesy; and has since been written … can be little doubt. Patricesy, in the Saxon, is Peter's water, or river; and as the same record which calls it … the same in Doomsday, Patriceham, belonged to St. Peter's Abbey, Chertsey, and retains it's original name a little …
Old and New London
… by Pope in the following lines: Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and … It was settled finally that these librarians of Beckett's appointment should put on liveries for the occasion, and … for the amusement of those royal personagesa fact to which Wilkes alludes more than once with a sly inuendo in one of …
Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts:
… various sources, including London directories, Gentleman's Magazine, Monthly Repository, Christian Reformer, Baptist Quarterly, Musgrave's Obituary, Frederic Boase Modern English Biography, J. … Square; M.P., Bridgnorth 1771-95; member, Whig Club. Wilkes, John (1727-97): sheriff of London 1771-2, lord mayor …
Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts:
… the British and Foreign Unitarian Assn.; Dr Williams's trustee; founder, NonCon Club 1817; member, the Protestant … treas., Old Jewry congregation, Jewin St; Dr Williams's trustee; Presbyterian Board; friend of John Cartwright, … western circuit; Dissenting Deputy; resided 9 King's Bench Walk, Temple. Bowring, John (1792-1872): of Exeter; …
Old and New London
… EscapesQueen Elizabeth at Lord Herbert's MarriageOld Blackfriars BridgeJohnson and MylneLaying of … Phillips and his WorksPainters in BlackfriarsThe King's Printing Office Printing House SquareThe Times and its … on the French system, and memoirs of Foote, Monk, Lewes, Wilkes, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. He published …
Old and New London
… an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent." Macaulay's Ballad of " The Armada." Situation and Description of … of Numerous TumuliEncampment of the Danish ArmyWat Tyler's RebellionReception of Richard II. at BlackheathThe Emperor … has been outcaricatured by Nature no one will deny. Wilkes was so abominably ugly that he said it always took him …
Survey of London
… a standstill for many months, until the shipwrights' union's demands for higher wages were conceded. George Green so … he promoted them to foremen. 146 In 1829 George Green's eldest son, Richard (180363) became a partner in the firm, … was then styled Green, Wigram & Green, and in 1831 Richard's halfbrother, Henry (180876), was also taken into …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… David at LlandewyBrevi, and is rated as such, in the king's books, at 6. It is now a perpetual curacy, endowed with 800 … of small extent, but of great strength, called "Tudor's Castle." At Tyllwyd, in the parish, is a chalybeate spring, … the parish, arising from the benefaction of a person named Wilkes; but since that period no payment has been made. …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 23 The reign of George II to the trial of Wilkes CHAP. XXIII. From the accession of George III. to the commencement of the prosecution of Mr. Wilkes. No prince perhaps ever mounted a throne under happier … of the former king. Immediately upon notice of the king's death, the privy council, with the lord-mayor of London, …
A New History of London
… Ch. 24 1763-1769 CHAP. XXIV. From the prosecution of Mr. Wilkes, to his being elected alderman of the ward of … additional seeds of discontent. The very day of lord Bute's appointment as first commissioner of the treasury, a … on the last day of April, took into custody John Wilkes, Esq; member for Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. Whether …