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Old and New London
… Westminster Tothill Fields and neighbourhood CHAPTER II. WESTMINSTER.TOTHILL FIELDS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. "No mead so fit For courtly joust or … Word "Tothill"Punishment of NecromancersGrant of a Market and Fair to be held in "Tuthill"Burials in Tothill FieldsThe …
A History of the County of Hertford
… now divided into the separate parishes of Wheathampstead and Harpenden, is situated at the north-west of the county on … in shape, being about six miles across from east to west, and about three from north to south. The parish before the division comprised 10,279 acres of land, and 19 acres of land covered with water, and in 1905 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 6970 acres, of which 2463 are arable, 7 woodland, and about 4500 common and waste; the soil is various, the surface mountainous. The substratum contains ironore, and cobalt is found in the Black-Combe mountain. The …
Old and New London
… Strype's AccountMention of Whitechapel by Beaumont and Fletcher and DefoeSt. Mary MatfellonIts Great AntiquityOld Religious … Executioner of Charles I.Rosemary LanePetticoat Lane and the Old Clothes SalesA Lucky FindPoverty in …
Old and New London
… Sanquhar Murders the Fencing-MasterHis TrialBacon and YelvertonHis ExecutionSir Walter Scott's "Fortunes of … CourtPersecution of the First CongregationalistsGranaries and Coal Stores destroyed by the Great FireThe Flogging in BridewellSermon on Madame CreswellHogarth and the "Harlot's Progress"Pennant's Account of …
Survey of London
… PALACEBUILDINGS Sorbire came to England about 1665, and has left his impressions on record. One of the places … very stately, because the rest of the Palace is ill Built, and nothing but a heap of Houses, erected at divers times, and of different Models, which they made Contiguous in the …
Survey of London
… Wolsey's departure, he came from Greenwich by water, "and landed at the house which once belonged to the Cardinal, where he has found handsome and well-furnished apartments, provided with everything that … to the gardiner of Beaulie in rewarde for bringing herbes and Rotes to Yorke place vj s viij d [December] "It'm to the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… 1. Finished Egyptian stamp, read two tales, cut up wood and began ancient wood cut figures. Very wet and in morning was favoured with a sharp thunderstorm, … that one which astonished Liverpool yesterday. The Queen and family are gone to Manchester; they take up their abode …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Willesden Settlement and growth SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH. Apart from Roman Watling Street, evidence of … Royal, Bronze Age vessels on the site of Brent reservoir, and Roman bricks at Neasden. There have also been suggestions …
Statutes of the Realm
… William and Mary, 1691 Chapter XI. An Act for the better Explanation and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the … Whereas one Act of Parliament made in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth years of His late Majesty King Charles the …