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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… to the effect that all French Protestants seeking an asylum in England will not only receive royal protection for … and Lady Spencer, as to the custody of Lady Cope, widow, a lunatic, desires you to report to whom, and in what manner, the custody of the lunatic ought to be granted. [ H.O. Letter Book ( …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… effort in the same direction had been Mrs. Mayer's Asylum, founded under the will (1811) of Judith Mayer of Wisbech. Her intention was to provide an 'asylum' for poor persons afflicted with palsy, rheumatism, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… prominent in town affairs, the Batts running a private lunatic asylum on High Street from 1823 to 1857. 98 A bank founded in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 1857 later members of the Batt family ran a private lunatic asylum in Witney at No. 33 High Street (Field House). Inmates … and both men and women until 1854, though by then the asylum catered chiefly for middleclass women. Conditions were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… here, in 1568, of Mary, Queen of Scots, when she sought an asylum in England, after her escape from the field of …