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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of a Blacksmith [Inventories (1592)]. These could be 'crutchets' or forked supports, though the OED's earliest reference is 1772, and it is worthy to note that a blacksmith owned seven pairs. The second … formed of the quill of a feather fixed in jack and set in motion by the keys, used for plucking the strings of a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… was perhaps lengthened, and a small N. chapel added to contain the Croft monument. The bell-turret was added or … Church, Plan Architectural DescriptionThe Chancel (29 ft. by 18 ft.) has an early 16th-century E. window of four … moulded architrave and four key-blocks; the upper part is set in a low segmental dormer. In the S. wall are two …
Survey of London Monograph
… in 1638/9, and in this entry definite reference is made to his " Capital messuage, lately built." The use of the word … doors, particularly one on the second floor, may also be survivals of the earlier structure. The plan. The house … basement to the second floor and the military figures 4 set on the newel posts and the fine doorways on each floor …
Survey of London Monograph
… the memory of our fathers, were separated from London by long stretches of land still unattacked by the builder, … which, although he creeps up insidiously, he will never be quite able to subdue, as important tracts have now been saved for public …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… ill, insomuch, that after a week's time his disease began to show very desperate symptoms; whereupon he was removed to … to the disease he died of, which, by the by, appeared to be that of poison, his body, although thus bound up and laid … paws streamers crowned. On both sides of the bed were set up in sockets, four great standards of the Protector's …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… and Ireland, and the dominions thereto belonging: to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting, Whereas … Council,) that the founding of a College at Durham, will be of great advantage to these counties, and to all the … such order and determination of the same, as they shall set down in writing under their hands and seals, shall stand …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… some old stones. In the N. wall is an 18th-century doorway to the vestry and above it remains of an earlier … traces of the junction of the former N. chancel wall can be seen to the N. of it; partly covered by the existing N. … 50 yards S.S.W. of (3), retains one original window. Re-set in an outbuilding is a stone with the initials and date …
Survey of London
… built by Sir John Crosby in 1466. Great efforts were made to preserve the building on its City site, but in spite of a … considerable expense, caused the architectural features to be taken down, numbered and stored, and later handed over the … and fireplace, and corbels for roof were carefully re-set in their proper positions and the external faces of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… after the N. arcade was re-built. The North Chapel appears to have been added in the second half of the 14th century, … The remains are too fragmentary for a definite plan to be laid down. On the opposite side of the beck are traces of … forms a window and the modern doorway, S. of it, has a re-set 17th-century lintel above it with a shield-of-arms of …
A Dictionary of London
… Surrendered, 30 H. VIII. (Newcourt), and site granted to Sir Thos. Wyatt (Povah, 291). Hall made a glass house and … Small portions of the foundations of the Friars' house can be seen in the cellars underneath No. 25 Crutched Friars (ib. … in 1459, and the ordinances of the fraternity are set out in Trans. L. and M. Arch. Soc. IV. p.44. There was …