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A Dictionary of London
… of commercial chambers. Skinners' Place At the east end of Bull's Head Passage, adjoining Leadenhall Market (Lockie, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… been improved by the introduction of the short-horned bull from the south. The wool produced here was formerly sent …
A History of the County of Stafford
… on the first or second Monday in September. 29 There was bull-baiting at the 1826 wake. 30 In 1835 it was expected … that the chief attractions at that year's wake would be bull-baiting and prizefighting; 31 about that time a newcomer to Smethwick found that the only pastimes were bull- and bear-baiting, dog- and cock-fighting, 'and other …
A History of the County of Oxford
… without the vice-chancellor's leave, any bear-baiting, bull-baiting or horse-baiting, cock-fighting, fencing or … took place in St. Clement's in 1690. 40 The principal bull-ring was at Carfax until the site was taken for the building of the conduit in 1616. 41 There was also a bull-ring outside the North Gate 42 and a baiting took place …
A History of the County of Essex
… Colch. Expr. 11 May 1972; Colch. Civic Soc. 'Quarterly Bull.' i. 1; inf. from Mrs. G. Nicholson, sec. of St. …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… of London assemble to meet the King, or to hear a Pope's bull, or to proclaim an outlaw It would be better," he adds, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… for those engaged in private education. In 1650 Henry Bull, late of Chelsea, was said to have taken a house there …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… of York claimed metropolitical authority over Man. A bull of Pope Calixtus III addressed to Archbishop William …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fountain Road) north of the church, and further south Bull Lane, which with c. 20 houses was more built-up. That … c. 1640. 95 The village's alehouses then included the Bull, certainly an inn in the 1630s, 96 and the Lion, 97 … had a public house in 1810, 15 probably that called the Bull, 1860-80, but later only a beershop. 16 In the late 19th …