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Old and New London
… by reading the proclamation at the entrance to Cloth Fair, Smithfield. It was the custom for the mayors to call by the …
Old and New London
… best corn-fields at Greenhithe; hay, straw, and cattle at Smithfield, with horses too. Where is such a garden in Europe …
Old and New London
… the establishment of the new meat and poultry market in Smithfield, London was behind every city of Europe in respect … of public markets. For seven centuries, dating from 1150, Smithfield has been used as a market for live stock. … Consort, in 1855," says the Times of November 25, 1868, "Smithfield became waste ground. The arrangements at …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… now in part a public footway leading from the Close to the Smithfield Gate: in part it is a carriage way (though not a … under the public footway to trace the nave wall into Smithfield. This doorway is shown on the plan (p. 131); also …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… that of the close and retained the separate entrance from Smithfield. The close was entered by a gate at the southern … the guest-house; for there was no passage-way through to Smithfield then as there is now Towards the south of the open … churchyard; therefore it would have been approached from Smithfield by the gate of the fair (the present entrance to …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… to the Fair ground was on the north side of the church in Smithfield, as now; Agas' map also shows a small gate to the …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… situate in the close of Great St. Bartholomew's nere West Smithfield by lease from the Right Honble. Lord Rich dated 16 … stables were entered from within the monastery, not on the Smithfield front, which latter in the Bounds of the Close 70 …
Old and New London
… Folgate, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Whitechapel, East Smithfield, St. Katherine's, Wapping, Ratcliff, Shadwell, …
Old and New London
… cattle-market, which was to supersede the old market at Smithfield. The new market was planned, and the various … was carried on with unabated vigour in the crowded pens of Smithfield Bars. Latterly, however, the nuisance engendered … but it is, nevertheless, a great improvement upon old Smithfield. In our account of Pentonville, in the volume …
Old and New London
… an earlier date it furnished fagots for the fires lit at Smithfield alternately by the Protestants and the Catholics. …