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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… [Acts (1711)]. OED earliest date of use: 1769 See also ST JOHNSONS CLOTH. Sources: Acts. References: Forsyth …
Survey of London
… Dunraven Street This street was laid out in the 1750's. Originally called Norfolk Street, it was sometimes known … loosely modelled on Lutyens' recent rebuilding of No. 7 St. James's Square. It is a large house of six bays, and the … Print Collection, Westminster CE 21019. G.L.R.O.(M), TC/St. G./2. GBM 9/126. Lillie Langtry, The Days I Knew, n.d., …
Survey of London
… in 18915 to the designs, with one exception, of the firm's architect Maurice Charles Hulbert (Plate 49e). The houses … No. 10 was, however, made directly available to the Hon. St. John Brodrick (later first Earl of Midleton) who chose … contemporary work at No. 54 Mount Street. In 1931 Queen Mary expressed a desire to purchase the freehold of the …
Survey of London
… the contiguous sides of these two streets as far as Wood's Mews was one of the major schemes of redevelopment … terracotta houses, were erected in 18823 on the site of St. Mary's Chapel (see page 255) by the builder Charles Fish as a …
Survey of London
… and was not substantially completed until the mid 1760's. The slump in the volume of building in London which lasted … by Timbrell's son, William, and John Spencer, who erected St. Mary's Chapel and a single house there. 10 To the west of …
Survey of London
… in the roof lit by dormers which are set well back, Smith's restrained elevations here being in red brick with stone … Dwellings North Row Dwellings were erected in 18879 by the St. George's Workmen's Model Dwellings Association to the designs of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… October 22nd. The living is a vicarage, rated in the king's books at 21. 2. 3., and endowed with five-sixteenths of the … tithes; present net income, 714; patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph. The impropriate tithes of the township of Gresford … of Crosswood, were planted in the reign of William and Mary, and are all of the same age. The parishregister …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Middlesex
… monuments in Middlesex Greenford 17 GREENFORD (B.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)X, S.E. (b)XV, N.E.) Greenford is a parish adjoining Ealing on the N.W. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical b(1) Parish … Widgy, 171., slab; head and foot-stones S. of nave, (9) to Mary, wife of Thomas Butler, 1653, (10) to Frances (Butler), …
The Environs of London
… as this place is called, both in Edward the Confessor's Charter of Confirmation, and in Doomsday book, is literally … says the survey of Doomsday, is held by the Abbot of St. Peter, for eleven hides and a half. The land is seven … persecuted Protestants during the reign of the bigotted Mary 27. Edward Terry. Edward Terry, who was presented to the …
The Environs of London
… in some parts gravel. This parish pays the sum of 91 l. 11 s. 1d. to the land-tax. Manor. When the survey of doomsday … had been held by two sokemen; one of them was a canon of St. Paul's, who had two hides, and might alien them at his … Cornhill, or Greenford Parva, with the advowson of the church, belonged to Walter de Langton, Bishop of Litchfield …