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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with water-works and fountains; the orangery is 108 feet long, and a conservatory covers about an acre of land. Her Majesty, her royal consort, and the court, …
Old and New London
… fields and marshes, was joined to the City walls by that long straggling street of bishops' and nobles' palaces, … and who can dive into oblivion and recover them? The long rows of gable ends, the abbey archways, the old guild … French blood. See how smart he is in his short gown and long wide sleeves. He can joust, and dance, and sing, and …
The Environs of London
… he is represented in a high-crowned hat, a ruff, and a long beard; the picture is almost decayed; but an engraving … with blue slate, standing round a court of 150 foote long, and 132 foote broad, paved with stone, commonly called … one faire and large court of 137 foot broad, and 116 foot long, all paved with free-stone, commonly called the inner …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… ' Ambulatory' (87 ft. by 57 ft. at E. end) is four bays long and three wide, but the two W. bays on the S. side are …
A Survey of London
… neare the gate thereof. This Mannor or great house hath of long time beene diuided and letten out into many tenementes: … monstrous fish as I take it. A shanke bone of 25 inches long, of a man as is said, but might be of an Oliphant. … the tooth (being aboute the bignes of a mans fist) is long since conueyed from thence: the thigh or shanke bone of …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… Cantuaria in 12913, at a cost of 226 l. 13 s. 4 d. It was long the care of the Citizens, and was rebuilt in 1441, and …
Old and New London
… on France, a London citizen named William with the Long Beard ( alias Fitzosbert, a deformed man, but of great … part left off at the instigation of this William with the Long Beard, which he nourished of purpose, to seem the more … resort unto him was well kept for a time, but it was not long before they began to follow him again as they had done …
Old and New London
… the representer of Justice, hieroglyphically attired, in a long red robe, and on it a golden mantle fringed with silver; on her head a long dishevelled hair of flaxen colour, curiously curled, on … it consists of a block of freestone, seven feet long and fifteen inches thick, hollowed out to receive a …
Old and New London
… sport our heads off like foot-balls; but it will not be long ere her head will dance the like dance." It is to be … wide in front, next Milk Street, and is about 160 feet long; it contains eleven class-rooms of various dimensions, a … Thomas of Acon," from Becket's mother having been born at Acre, the ancient Ptolemais, was given to the Mercers' …