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Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… without reasonable cause; Any person that keepeth a known Stews or Brothelhouse, or that shall sollicite the Chastity …
Survey of London
… Reformation as the place where the licensed brothels or "stews" of London were kept. Stow 26 tells us that these … in the "Pike Gardens" along Bankside so that the term "stews bank" often applied to this region may have had a … entendre. An unsuccessful attempt was made to abolish the stews in 1506 and they were finally put down in 1546 when …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and Frying. Sauces for every Occasion. Soups, Broths, Stews, and Hashes. Ragoos and Fricassees. Made Dishes, both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and bream were brought to Woodstock from other royal stews in 1256 and 1305. 61 A garden fishpond was built in …
A New History of London
… now called Bankside from its situation, were formerly the stews or public bawdy houses, licenced and regulated by the … were confirmed by parliament in the 8 Henry II. 11. These stews, or bawdy-houses, in the year 1381, were plundered by … man to be artfully deluded into a stew. That the several stews be searched weekly, by the bailiff, constables, &c.That …