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A History of the County of Worcester
… part of the land was claimed by the prior of St. Mary's, Worcester, and part by the prior of Great Malvern. In 1455 Sir John Beauchamp of Powick, on paying 40 s. in the hanaper, obtained a writ of privy seal authorizing him to carry out his ancestor's wish by granting compensation to the priors of Worcester …
The Environs of London
… granted it to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's 4, who held a court there I Edw. VI. It has been in the … usual stories of monkish intrigues. It appears by Norden's Survey of Middlesex, that Lord Chief Justice Popham, in his … Bacon. Mr. Bacon has also the original cast of Roubiliac's bust of Handel, over which is placed a portrait of Charles …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Friern Barnet. 85 In 1612 he gave a rent-charge of £8 6 s. 8 d. on land in Hertfordshire: £7 16 s. was to be disbursed at the rate of 1 s. monthly to twelve inmates of the alms-houses that he had …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… mentioned by name the advowson was included in the Crown's grant of the manor to the chapter of St. Paul's in 1544 59 and it was specifically excluded from leases of … described as a chapel. 62 In 1519 the prior of St. John's stated that Friern Barnet lay in Finchley parish, 63 yet …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the south. The Friary, Manor House Farm, and St. James's church stand on an outcrop of gravel beside Friern Barnet … Muswell Hill. 10 The streams are all tributaries of Pymme's brook. Blackett's brook, mentioned c. 1513, 11 runs … which was lined with sports grounds. 3 By 1920 Oakleigh Gardens was partly built up but Oakleigh Avenue, 4 laid out …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of the site of the manor-house, six houses, a dovecot, six gardens, 40 a. of land, 100 a. meadow, 100 a. pasture, and … The Friary, Manor farm, and Friern Lodge (later Frenchman's farm) existed by 1661 34 and in 1783 their dependent … the reversion to his stepson William Pert, whose mother's third husband John Povey tried unsuccessfully to convert …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Friern Barnet Public services PUBLIC SERVICES. Pymme's brook in Southgate was thought capable of poisoning the … inadequate. 2 Edmonton was unwilling to take the parish's sewage 3 and the rural sanitary authority was sued for … it was regarded in 1891 as a great credit to the designer, Baldwin Latham. 10 The surplus land was used for rubbish and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… following, although the local branch of the British Women's Temperance Association was a regular user by 1895. 16 In … 1887 scandalized parishioners were assured that St. Peter's mission hall offered educational opportunities for the … 60 a. in 1946. 78 Friary park consists mainly of formal gardens and has a children's bathing pool and playground. By …
Survey of London
… boundary of the Monmouth House site. 82 Ogilby and Morgan's map of that year errs, however, in showing the north and … of those streets (chiefly of Frith Street) until the 1730's, and between Frith Street and Greek Street by the return … Monmouth House until the latter were replaced by Bateman's Buildings in 17745. The street is not named in the …
Survey of London
… in 1680, but with only three ratepayers. Ogilby and Morgan's map of 16812 (Plate 2) shows the street fully built but … a mistake. The chief period of building was in the 1680's. Eighteen ratepayers are named in 1683, and twenty-one in … is a very modest house, built on a site constricted by the gardens of the houses in Old Compton Street. But though much …