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Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… TABLE I. Warrants, Orders, Letters, Memorials, Reports, and Entries of minor importance. 173940. Date. Description of … warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt. To distribute and apply the 1739 Xmas quarter s income of the General Fund. … 1 page. Appending:Note of the transport expenses of said slaves detailed (total 20 l. 11 s. 4 d.). 1 page. Treasury …
A History of the County of Essex
… Liberty was formed by the river Colne on the south and St. Botolph's brook on the south-east. The north-east … a tributary of St. Botolph's brook. The north, north-west, and west boundaries with Great Horkesley and Wormingford … The combined total of free tenants, unfree tenants, and slaves was 27 in 1066 and probably 32 in 1086. 39 In 1377 …
The Environs of London
… West Ham WESTHAM. Situation, and boundaries. This parish lies in the hundred of Becontree; … 32 villans, now 48; then 16 bordars, now 79; always three slaves; pannage for 100 hogs; 60 acres of meadow; formerly … 34 villans, now 38; then three bordars, now 26; then 19 slaves, now three: there is pannage for 700 hogs, and 50 …
Survey of London
… 1871, was a single-storey room with round-headed windows and a heavily dentilled cornice. 108 The north-east side of West India Dock Road, between Birchfield Street and Ming Street, was developed in the early nineteenth … with the Limehouse Chinatown as a hotbed of gaming, white-slavery, drug-taking and subversion fuelled by popular …
The Environs of London
… given to distinguish it from the parish last treated of, and from another of the same name in the country, lies within … the hundred of Ruxley, about four miles from Bromley, and four from Croydon in Surrey. The principal part of the … twenty-four villans, who employ four. There are thirteen slaves, a church, and a mill of twenty-pence yearly rent, and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wiltshire-Somerset border in which, during the later 17th and very early 18th century, dissenting influences were … house of Roger Cutter (Cator or Cater), their preacher, and a group calling themselves Quakers met at the house of … views and was accused of preaching sermons condemning slavery. Eventually part of the congregation withdrew and a …
Old and New London
… pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof; By its own weight made steadfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my waking sight: the tombs And monumental caves …
Old and New London
… forget, though there we are forgot." Byron. Abbot Ingulph and Queen EdgithaA Monastic School in the "Dark Ages"The … Curll's Piracy of a School OrationThe Prince Regent and the Marquis of AngleseyThe College GardensThe … in the conventional costume of Athenian or Roman citizens, slaves, &c., and some sustaining the female parts. There are …
Old and New London
… Westminster King St, Great George St and the Broad Sanctuary CHAPTER III. WESTMINSTER.KING STREET, … Sir T. Fowell Buxton, advocated the emancipation of the slaves throughout the British dominions, achieved in 1834. It … extinction of the slave-trade and of the abolition of slavery in the United States." Mr. S. S. Teulon was the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… London Diary, July-December 1856 1. JULY. Finished 'Tunny' and went to Mr Foster's at St Johns Wood. No news. Fine day. 2. Began a fish and also a machine. Went to cricket in the afternoon to … shall not take my holidays. 3. Finished 'shearing machine' and fish. No news. My uncle John came on a visit to us today. …