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Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… Laundress 16601685 1660 10 June Chiffinch, D. 1680 1 Apr. Wall, E. Seamstress and Starcher 16871702 1687 22 Dec. …
Survey of London
… Martin's Lane. All of these strips were outside the brick wall with which the third Earl enclosed the central nucleus … of Bedford. Some 134140 feet to the south stood the brick wall erected in c. 1610 by the Earl around the central part … Hart) Street. The area between the street and the wall was let out in garden plots, the tenants being required …
Survey of London
… back to Drury Lane. It was marked by an earth or mud wall, the top of which was thatched with straw. 3 There was … to the garden on the north side, but outside the enclosing wall (the first mention of this piece of property which has …
Survey of London
… were two pieces of land called Friars Pyes between the wall of the convent garden and the Strand. This curious name … alleys were built between the Strand and the old boundary wall of the convent garden, namely (from west to east) Curl …
Survey of London
… pasturewhich measured about 20 acres within the brick wall erected by the third Earl. Parts of this wall were left standing but, in preparation for bringing in … by the continued existence of parts of the brick wall which blocked some of the new streetsKing Street at the …
Survey of London
… the latter to the garden of Cecil House and built a brick wall to enclose it, from which projected three banqueting … the remaining old properties outside the line of the brick wall. Besides these ordinary leases the fifth Earl also … a number of building leases, both within and without the wall. A few of these were for filling in vacant sites. In the …
Survey of London
… Maiden Lane (hitherto blocked at the east end by the west wall of Bedford House garden) was made much narrower than at … and door frames set closer than 4 inches to the outside wall face. 191 As several houses on Bedford Ground were … some original window-frames, set nearly flush with the wall face, and although their attics have now been altered, …
Survey of London
… the company agreeing to alter its building and to erect a wall between the printing works and the backs of the Duke's …
Survey of London
… of pasture was again reduced by the erection of a brick wall within the former wooden fence. 61 This wall, whose position is shown on fig. I, both determined and … survived to the present day. In 1615, shortly after the wall was built, the third Earl carried out the first major …