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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Dog Row DOG ROW. In the 1570s a broad area of waste stretched from Mile End to Bethnal green, through … 64 In 1582 Thomas, Lord Wentworth, made three grants of waste on the west side of the road, initially as copyhold but converted to 500-year …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ECONOMIC HISTORY AGRICULTURE. Possibly excepting parts of Eastfield, all open-field land had been inclosed by 1652. … minor boundary changes and some division and recombination of fields both before and after 1703 but most fields remained … carried on at Bishop's Hall from the Middle Ages 64 and by merchants and gentlemen in the 16th and 17th centuries, some …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Stepney manor. 36 In 1652 a parliamentary survey was made of the demesne lands, mostly within Bethnal Green, sequestrated from the royalist earl of Cleveland. 37 Trustees appointed by Act for the sale of forfeited estates, who included William Robinson, conveyed …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Levin Salomons in 1765 and by Abraham de Mattos Mocatta of the bullion-broking family in 1769. The boxer Daniel … come to rival the Great Synagogue. 45 The western portion of Old Ford Lane was named Jews' Walk by 1779 46 and a … importance of Jews. In the late 18th century the Sephardi merchants, like other wealthy Londoners, began to abandon the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green List of Churches LIST OF CHURCHES Inf. about patrons and clergy is taken from … are used in all architectural descriptions. Illus. of churches in T. Roberts, Housing and Ministry. An …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… GOVERNMENT. Bethnal Green lay wholly within the manor of Stepney of which it was a recognized locality by 1405. 80 A constable recorded for the hamlet from the beginning of the 17th century 81 had probably existed long before, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… The first dissenting congregation was either that of an Independent meeting house from 1669 87 or one using the … still a minister there in 1690. 90 In 1684 the officials of Bethnal Green were punished for refusing to reveal … patrons lived just outside the parish, like the silk merchants and manufacturers of Spitalfields and Hackney. The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Corfield Street (formerly Camden Gardens), probably part of a cemetery at Spitalfields. 18 Saxon beads from Brick Lane … place-name Blithehale or Blythenhale, the earliest form of Bethnal Green, is from the Anglo-Saxon healh, 'angle, … century Bethnal Green provided country retreats for London merchants, lawyers, and courtiers. They were especially …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… THE GREEN: BETHNAL GREEN VILLAGE. 26 The earliest area of settlement was probably around the green, particularly in … by 1512 in an inclosure on the green at the western corner of the lane and what later became Victoria Park Square. 29 … earlier, a few larger houses, the retreats of courtiers or merchants from London. The Corner House, the capital messuage …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… church towards Hackney' 15 was possibly the first mention of Collier's Row, the name given to houses fronting Hackney Road south and north of Collier's Lane. Collier's Row was a recognized locality in … John Welsh, a Shoreditch bricklayer, in 1677 and to London merchants, including Joshua Green in 1670 and John Williams …