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A Survey of London
… and of the suburbes from the barres, by S. Mary Spittle to Bishopsgate, and a part of Hounds ditch, almost halfe … that in the yeare 1398. king Richard hauing procured from Rome, confirmation of such statutes, and ordinances, as were … from Fredericke the seconde, the King of Denmarke: an Ambassador of France, &c. sir Iohn Spencer Alderman lately …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… within the border. From the ridge the ground falls rapidly to the north and east, and more gently to the south, many outlying spurs breaking the surface into … penal laws. 349 Henry Long, a secular priest educated at Rome, 350 the chaplain at the hall from 1666 to 1679, was …
Old and New London
… of Mountfiquet were two of them. Baynard Castle, granted to the Earls of Clare and afterwards rebuilt by Humphrey Duke … was at the time occupied by Count de Tillier, the French ambassador. About three o'clock on Sunday, October 26th, a … a proposed castiron parapet, in imitation of one at Rome, as too poor and trifling for a great design. He allowed …
Old and New London
… in the last half of the last century. It seems at one time to have been called St. George's Road, but was long known as … being "the wonder of foreigners approaching by this road to our capital, through avenues of lamps, of magnificent breadth and goodness." One foreign ambassador, indeed, thought London was illuminated in honour …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the royal gardener, although the design probably owed much to Vanbrugh. 47 The chief elements, quickly settled after … garden, immediately south of the palace and linked to smaller formal gardens on the east and west fronts; (iv) a … Bernini fountain, a gift to the 1st duke from the Spanish ambassador at the Vatican, set up by Chambers in 1774; it was …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and Alsi held it then under Stalre; 4 villains belonged to it, and 33 bordarers, &c. 4 servi, &c. with 3 carucates in … &c. Soon after the survey it was granted from the Crown to the noble family of De Gournay: Hugh de Gournay, a Norman … Warwickshire, and Wokton, in Bucks, on their trustee, John Rome, clerk, many of which lordships came to Thomas de …
Old and New London
… Earl of BedfordJohn, Fourth Duke of BedfordInvitations to "take Tea and Walk in the Fields"A Curious … ResidentsPoor Sir Richard SteelePope's Allusion to Bloomsbury SquareSir Hans Sloane and his "Curiosities"The … some time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and subsequently our ambassador to the Court of France, in which character he …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Coll. 1521, M.A. 19 March, 1522-3, admitted B.Med. and to practice 8 July, 1527, D.Med. 18 July, 1530, died at … Trinity Coll. 14 May, 1601, B.D. 7 June, 1608, licenced to preach 13 Dec., 1608, rector of Eversleigh, Hants, 1608, … the keepers of the state paper office, 'resident or leiger ambassador to the states of the united provinces,' knighted …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… Other notes ?MD Cantab by 1568. Trouble 1570. Sent to Moscow 1570 and d there in prison (?by torture) 1574. NB … be released from prison since he had given satisfaction to the Queen for violation of the laws of the Kingdom by … of poverty and then because he went off to Moscow with the ambassador in great haste, unless that very departure, of …
A New History of London
… Book 1, Ch. 1 From the Romans to the Conquest BOOK I. Containing the History. CHAP. I. … London from the earliest accounts of it under the Romans, to the Norman conquest. Aretrospect into the events of past … the capital of every colony resembled the mother city Rome, and the elegance of the Roman improvements made their …