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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… wider responsibilities. In 1814 it arranged for four women to receive training as mid-wives. 45 In 1827 it …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… a kneeling woman; and in the foreground is the Virgin, two women and St. John. In the left light is the repentant thief …
Old and New London
… registered herself and her companions here as "Sanctuary women;" and how here, "in great penury, and forsaken of all … to the glory of God, for twelve poor men and poor women. The building was afterwards converted into lodgings …
Survey of London
… 174 until 1923 when Morley College for Working Men and Women was transferred there from the Old Vic Theatre (see p. …
Old and New London
… entertained here, on New Year's Day, 1236, 6,000 poor men, women, and children. It was here, in 1170, the young Prince … and the chief citizens, at the trial of 480 men and eleven women, with ropes about their necks, for being concerned in … three great bonfires, and great many gallants, men and women; and they laid hold of us, and would have us drink the …
Old and New London
… state, clad in the deepest mourning, and surrounded by her women, all as black and as dismal looking as herself. Here, …
Old and New London
… the collection of a series of portraits of English men and women of note and celebrity, and forming them into a …
Old and New London
… swarmed around a "'spital," associating of course with women of the lowest class, and so perpetuating the breed of …
Old and New London
… maiming harmless foot-passengers, and even defenceless women. They took various slang designations. At the …
Old and New London
… twenty rooms, to be inhabited rent free by as many poor women. They were founded in the reign of Elizabeth, under … Fiennes, Lord Dacre, for the support of ten men and ten women, as pensioners; and also for ten boys and ten girls, …