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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Other waters, particularly those of TOILETRY, were given a French label to denote their fashionablility. These, too, sometimes appeared in both French and English; for example, JONQUIL WATER and EAU DE …
Old and New London
… is of Portland stone, decorated in the style of the French Renaissance. The doorway is arched and deeply … of Fetonte. "It is," writes he, "in what they call the French manner, but about as like it as my Lady Pomfret's hash … one Babylonish tongue. I speak not my own tongue, nor French, nor your tongue propre.' "Her husband, before Junot …
A History of the County of Hertford
… of 1642; also two silver flagons of 1628, and a modern French chalice. The parish registers begin in 1539, and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… in armour, under a canopy, with marginal inscription in French and two shields; said to be of Sir Philip Peletoot, … in the chapel, slab with marginal inscription in French to Sir Robert de Gravele, 14th-century: alabaster slab …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… than that derived from 'Sea ware' But he added that the French frequently used WINE LEE dried and burnt [Anon …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 1676 and 16789. He was much influenced by contemporary French architecture and garden design and as early as 1669, … the house at Boughton in its present late 17th-century French style began soon after 1683. The elaborate gardens …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… his most excellent pieces concerning horsmanship both in French and English, whereof he is so great a master, that …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1676 74 and none c. 1693 75 or in 1772. 76 At the French Revolution George Forester accommodated French priests at Dothill 77 and in 1806 a Roman Catholic …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of brown brick with a Roman Doric porch and a Venetian French window above it. The history of Drayton Hall is … was burned down in 1877. 72 Under the management of George French, alias 'Count Bolo', a notorious swindler, it is said …
A History of the County of Sussex
… altar stone found beneath it, missals, and a chalice of French workmanship of c. 1600, found c. 1925. 67 Panelling in … a clerestoried nave and aisles with south-east tower in French Gothic style. It is not oriented. Its building was …