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A History of the County of Hertford
… Hatching Green (Hacche End Grene) in Harpenden, Marshall's Heath near Mackerye End, Bower Heath (Bourehethe) to the … part of the population is engaged in agriculture. Straw hat-making is still carried on by women in the cottages, … of world-wide renown. With the exception of Boussingault's station in Alsace, this is the earliest experimental …
Old and New London
… Whitechapel CHAPTER XVII. WHITECHAPEL. Strype's AccountMention of Whitechapel by Beaumont and Fletcher and … WhitechapelThe London HospitalThe Danish ChurchThe Goodman's Fields Theatre. "Whitechapel," says Strype, "is a spacious … and challenging the privileges there, abjured the king's land. Then the constables in charge of him brought him into …
Old and New London
… TrialBacon and YelvertonHis ExecutionSir Walter Scott's "Fortunes of Nigel"Shadwell's Squire of AlsatiaA Riot in … with him is "the ready," "the rhino," "the darby;" a good hat is "a rum nab;" to be well off is to be "rhinocerical." … a public-house in Bride Lane. It remained neglected till Cardinal Wolsey ( circa 1512) came in pomp to live here. …
Survey of London
… appearance of the Palace in the early part of Charles II's reign. The building operations of that monarch no doubt … mass of buildings, of differing styles and dates. James II's rebuilding of the privy gallery and of the Queen's … 121 he placed the site of the Great Chamber "exactly over Cardinal Wolsey's cellars," a position which, as has been …
Survey of London
… Place. On 2nd November, 1529, only a few days after Wolsey's departure, he came from Greenwich by water, "and landed at the house which once belonged to the Cardinal, where he has found handsome and well-furnished … Cobwebs "You may walke into the Presence Chamber with your Hat, Spurres and sword on, And if you will presume to be so …
Old and New London
… must no more call it York Placethat is past: For since the Cardinal fell that title's lost; 'Tis now the King's, and called Whitehall." … Dr. Juxon and Dr. Morton. To Dr. Juxon he gave his hat and cloak. He prayed with them, walked twice or thrice …
Old and New London
… centuries. The last of the archbishops who tenanted it was Cardinal Wolsey, under whom it became one of the most … banqueting-house, and other apartments, as "Henry VIII.'s Gallery," the "Boarded Gallery," the "Matted Gallery," the … distant from the same ancient palace." And speaking of Cardinal Wolsey, it adds that "he had lately, upon the soil …
Old and New London
… grac'd, But by his death imperfect and defac'd." Storer's Metrical History of Wolsey. Wallingford HousePope's Lines on the Death-bed Scene of Villiers, Duke of … with his wizard-like shape, and his immense cocked hat was continually in motion, to assist him in the bows of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Stockton, N. E. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 5 miles (N. W. by W.) … for 11; and the impropriate for 106. 17. payable to Christ's Hospital, Sherburn. Whitton, with Tripleton WHITTON, with … The manor and impropriation of Thurlton were granted to Cardinal Wolsey by Henry VIII., and now belong to the Rev. …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Whymper's London Diary, July-December 1857 Whymper's London Diary, July-December 1857 July 1. Finished Egyptian … on the seventh I found it quite windy enough, my straw hat would keep on blowing off much to my disgust. Ugh! Is it …