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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… to the corporation; the ducking-stool, which was by Nuns-Bridge, is now decayed. Their gild-hall is a fine old … Kentfield is mentioned, and said to have belonged to the nuns; it is the same that is now called Smith-Field, and is …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the whole winter, burning the monasteries, deflowering the nuns, committing all manner of rapine and cruelty; they burnt St. Ebba, 15 with her nuns and monastery, together with Landaff, Tynemouth, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Abbot turned it into a nunnery, and placed the Benedictine nuns of St. George there. This Cnute confirmed all the large …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… son of Roger, who founded Thicket priory for Benedictine nuns and endowed it with 4 bovates in Richard I's reign, and …
A Dictionary of London
… Name derived from the sign. Three Nun Inn, Aldgate; Three Nuns Hotel See Three Nuns Yard. Three Nunnes Alley See Three Nuns Court. Three Nuns Court North out of Threadneedle …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… This may explain the 'Santa Rosa toothpicks, made by the Nuns', who otherwise specialised in manufacturing ARTIFICIAL …
A History of the County of Chester
… of St. Bridget's church. Castle Esplanade (formerly Nuns Road), which joined the new street in front of the …
A History of the County of Chester
… Roman fortress. 1 Its line was continued to the south by Nuns Lane, the site of the Benedictine nunnery from the mid … the city walls, lay a quarry and crofts, across which the nuns had a right of way to the Roodee and the river. 18 Much …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… who by 1152 held land which afterwards passed to the nuns of Clerkenwell. 16 The Black Death is not known to have …