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Old and New London
… doubly peopled, Haunted by ghosts of the remembered Past." London Poems. But before we start off upon our pilgrimage, … the "West," as doubtless it was called by the citizens of London in the days when London ended at the gate of "Lud," or, at the farthest, at …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… the whole county of Middlesex, formerly in the diocese of London, except for Fulham, and the archdeacon of Middlesex … 1550 the diocese of Westminster was reunited with that of London. Thomas Thirlby surrendered the diocese to the Crown … to Norwich, while Nicholas Ridley was made bishop of London and Westminster by letters patent of 1 April. 3 An act …
Old and New London
… jocari." Mr. John Timbs tells us, in his "Curiosities of London," that near the southern end of King Street, on the … easily distinguished from its neighbours by a flight of stone steps, which James II. permitted the cruel favourite to … the carbonate of copper not yet blackened by the smoke of London, Mr. Justice Gaselee was walking away from Westminster …
Old and New London
… Dean of St. Paul's, laid in this street the first stone of the City of Westminster Literary, Scientific, and … Peter Street. Mr. Peter Cunningham, in his "Handbook for London," prefers supposing that Sir Roger inquired his way in … side of Victoria Street. It was the first attempt made in London at a working men's club as distinguished from a …
Old and New London
… females, to commit suicide than any other place in London." St. James's Park must have been a rural and pleasant … Miller quaintly remarks in his "Picturesque Sketches of London." It is almost needless to add that the banks of the … those who think there are no birds but sparrows in London. They are:1, sparrow-hawk, seen once flying from the …
Old and New London
… "Tothill Fields," says Mr. Archer, in his "Vestiges of Old London," "were, within three centuries, part of a marshy … their parsley. In 1651 (August 25th) "the trained bands of London, Westminster," &c., to the number of 14,000, we are … coat of arms, those of England and France carved in stone, discovered in this house, was walled up in the front …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… S.E. of the village. It is built of flint and coursed iron-stone rubble; the quoins and other dressings are of oolite …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… font. The latter ornament is composed of the finest stone, and is six feet one inch in height from the ground. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… with a more disturbed area which includes fragments of stone foundations at the W. end. The larger enclosure has …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… niche in W. face, shaft cut down to surface of base, three stone steps, medival, small sundial, dated 1649, set on top. … On tower, incorporated in top stage of N.E. buttress, stone with formy cross, 13th-century. On S. wall of porch, stone fragment with conventional leaf-ornament, probably …