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Survey of London
… called exchange Alley, probably from its prosimity to the New Exchange, but within the first few years of its … with turned pendants and a heavy handrail and appears to date from the end of the seventeenth century. No. 1 at the … first quarter of the eighteenth century. Internally the building is in a very poor state of repair and only the …
Survey of London
… the continuation of Stamford Street across Waterloo Road to Westminster Bridge Road. The new road, which was for … an Act 92 authorizing the development of this ground for building. The road was cut in 1824, and between 1825 and 1830 … practically the whole frontage on either side was let on building leases. The turnpike, which stood approximately …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 30 Ed. I (1301)
A fifteenth granted by Edward I at the Parliament held at Lincoln in spring 1301. It covers the North Riding, one wapentake of the East Riding, and the liberties of St Mary's and St Peter's in York. From the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, volume 21.
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and packed into barrels. Here it set so hard that it had to be broken up with sledge hammers [Harley (1970)]. Although … nineteenth century [Rees (1819-20, 1972 ed.)], according to Rolt, most zaffre was brought from the East Indies, … Rolt claimed that zaffre was so much in demand that the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is hilly, and sandstone of good quality is quarried for building, and for repairing roads. The living is a rectory, … the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is now a school-house. Zeals ZEALS, a tything, … are common or waste. It has quarries of granite used for building, and some tin-mines, but the substratum of the …
Survey of London
… Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended northwards to the river along the line of the present Sumner Street and … at Southwark Library. They show that the original building, including galleries and seats, cost 360 and they … though the school still carried on in an adjoining building. Views of the exterior and the interior of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). Very few additions … near Bristol. The locality however appears to be in Gloucestershire. 101. Hoopoe. Upupa epops, Linn. A rare …
A History of the County of Somerset
… grayana. The last named form is strictly confined to the Thames estuary, and its occurrence in a Somerset list … is Vertigo antivertigo, while V. angustior comes from a Gloucestershire locality. The principal papers on the … presented to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society, about 1860, by Mr. Woodland, who told me that it was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet obtained certainly await … here constitutes the boundary line between Somerset and Gloucestershire. Chilopoda Centipedes Lithobiid Short-bodied, … Crustacea, p. 178. Fossil Estheri, Palontographical Society, p. 67 (1862). Transactions of the Linnan Society, …