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Old and New London
… into the mle. From every den and crib red-faced, bloated women hurry with fire-forks, spits, cudgels, pokers, and … schism, and estimates its adherents at about 200, but more women than men. Grindal says they held meetings and … is described by Ward, in his "London Spy." Both men and women, it appears, were whipped on their naked backs before …
Survey of London
… in all directions, containing many sculptures of men and women, children and birds and monsters, and other strange … And all Wives and Daughters of the Nobility and their Women that attend them may passe through this Chamber, and …
Survey of London
… the joust, or where a ball is to be held, what beautiful women are to be at court." 62 Visits of other ambassadors and … shall have Power to purge Whitehall from all Papists all Women whose Husbands are now, or have been, in Service … was they should all departe thence to Somersett house. The women howled and lamented but all in vaine, for the yeomen of …
Old and New London
… the slightest tincture of pedantry. Of the too celebrated women whose faces we still admire on the walls of Hampton … The king sat there chatting and toying with three women, whose charms were the boast and whose vices were the …
Old and New London
… Whitehall, to forty-eight poor men, and forty-eight poor women, boiled beef and shoulders of mutton, and small bowls … the Yeomen of the Guard, distributed to seventyfive poor women and seventy-five poor men, being as many as the King … woollen cloth, linen, shoes and stockings, to the men and women, and a cup of wine to drink the King's health." The …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… crimes, murdering about 40 Europeans including some women and children which even insurgents might have …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… railway. It was an excursion train of children and women, which had to meet at another spot, another train. When … but many of their cities have been burnt, and men, women and children slaughtered in hundreds. The most savage … to the latest accounts, 7 have been killed (chiefly women) and hundreds wounded, numbers not known. The service …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Very fine. The latest accounts fix the number of men, women and children massacred at Delhi as 3,000. Alas! Alas! … horrid, barbarous massacres by Nana Sahib of a 150 more women and children at Cawnpore. It is known now that that … manner upwards of 1000 Europeans, most of them being women. General Havelock discovered this last massacre when he …
A History of the County of Northampton
… lacemaking remained a ubiquitious by-employment for women in Wicken until the early 20th century. In 1891 there … retired in 1921 and was succeeded by the first of three women heads, each of whom initially brought new life to the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… century the almshouses accommodated elderly people, mostly women, sometimes with their families. 14 The long, thatched … at 'Row green' was half-derelict, housing only four old women, by the 1880s and empty by 1896. It was then demolished …