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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… and historical monuments in the City of Oxford Queen's College Queen's College Queen's College Arms The Queen's College (20) The … (f) variant of Lancaster; (g) variant of Lancaster; (h) Gibson impaling Alexander; (i) Celey (?); (j) Dixon; (k) Sir …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The Queen's College THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE Sources for the College … 1677 Timothy Halton 1704 William Lancaster 171617 John Gibson 1730 Joseph Smith 1756 Joseph Browne 1767 Thomas … was finished in 1721, and it was paid for by 1728. Provost Gibson, who had succeeded Lancaster, did not attempt to carry …
London Radicalism 1830-1843
… Cripplegate J. Roberts Black Thomas Brooksbank, 14 Gray's-inn square Samuel Courtauld, Booking, Essex George Charlwood, Covent garden H. S. Chapman, 2 Tillotson place, Waterloo bridge H. B. … Alexander Galloway, West street, Smithfield Thomas Gibson, Hanger's lane, Tottenham George Glazier, 16 …
Old and New London
… stream doth run By lovely London as beneath the sun There's not the like." Old Ballad. Poetic Effusions in Honour of … Rate of Charges made by WatermenDoggett's Coat and BadgeThomas Doggett as an ActorMiss Benger's Apostrophies of Taylor, the "Water-Poet"The Thames as the …
Old and New London
… Fair in 1683Rhyming Description of "Blanket Fair."Evelyn's Account of the FairPrinting on the IceCharles II.'s Partiality to Frost FairThe River again frozen over in … IceSingular Feats performed on the ThamesCaptain Boyton's Life-preserving DressScott, the American DiverRise and Fall …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… of Durham, in 1345, obtained a verdict against the king's commissioners, for trespasses done by them in intermeddling … to prevent the dean and chapter of Durham from erecting a quay or wharf at Westoe or Jarrow Slake, was again tried at … who had been in the water a considerable time. Mr. Peter Gibson, shoemaker, in Dean Street, an expert and intrepid …
Survey of London
… The wings are identical in treatment with the Governor's and Lieutenant-Governor's houses at the end of the … Heisenbuttell repairing & cleaneing the moddle xl s. John Gibson, joyner, his taske wainscotting the uppermost & lower … yard vij en foote of wall worke cclxxvij li viij d. Jo n Gibson, joyner, for wainscotting one gallery in the east wing …
Magna Britannia
… Lizard, and 10 leagues nearly west-by-south from the Land's-end. A small island, containing only one acre, gives its … the purpose of attacking Sir John Grenville at St. Mary's. The Dutch Admiral Vantromp is said to have made insidious … to punish such offenders by ducking in salt water, at the quay head 25. Till of late years, the minister of St. Mary's …
Survey of London
… to no other house in importance, not to King Henry VIII's manor house in Cheyne Walk, nor to the Earl of Shrewsbury's mansion, nor to the old manor house with which it shared … waterside were two large courtyards, and opposite was a quay. The remainder of the estate, south of the present …