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Unpublished London Diaries
… preoccupations. Huntington L Other Collns; Centre for Kentish Studies Uncat'd U2981 8. 1661 LILLIE, Axel, … Diary. 166677, including London visits to family and for shopping. Much examination of conscience, but also detail … schoolmaster. Diary, 16758, including unsuccessful search for work in London and visits there from Colchester where he …
Unpublished London Diaries
… to 'dear Sir Richard', her husband. Possibly written for general family consumption. WCA Acc 1621 302. 1840 NEVILL … of Shoreditch area. Diary and notebook, 184455, in a diary for 1839. Hackney AD M4233/1 311. 1843 SCOTT, Jessy Emma, of … she made frequent visits to London in her younger years, for shopping, finding servants, visiting friends and family, …
Unpublished London Diaries
… on her comfortable social circle in London. Interesting for rumours and scare-stories as well as food shortages, … 1916. Mainly his Gallipoli service, but invalided home for treatment at Southwark Military Hospital JanMay 1916. IWM … Norfolk Regiment). Diary, 1915, including treatment for wounds at Lady Evelyn Mason's Officers' Hospital in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Sir W. B. Proctor, Bart.: the tithes have been commuted for 220, and the glebe comprises 6 acres. The church is … and well lighted with gas, under the superintendence of 40 commissioners, including the rector and the churchwardens, … 1824, at an expense of 40,000, of which the Parliamentary Commissioners granted 8785, is a magnificent structure in the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and the abbot of Glastonbury had agreed to divide receipts for grazing on what was called Weston Marsh or Sowy Land, an … 14th century tenants of Dunwear and others were presented for grazing sheep and geese illegally on the commons. 17 The … rents remained constant between 1330 and 1378, although arrears in 1362-3 exceeded 40 per cent of the rental. 20 At …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… late in the 17th century. The E. window is modern except for the splays, which are probably the outer splays of a … 1557, his son, plain altar-tomb with moulded slab, sunk for brass fillet; indents of figure, inscription-plate and … two lozenge-shaped panels in front with cusping and bosses for fixing former brass shields, and one at E. end, recess …
Old and New London
… 1 The name seems to have puzzled the Norman scribes, for in Domesday Book it is written both "Cercehede" and … Hospital and Battersea Bridge was first made by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests in 1839, the … originally formed a portion of a scheme for which the Commissioners of Woods and Forests obtained an Act of …
Survey of London
… bell given by the Hon. William Ashburnham, who left money for ringing it every night at 9 o'clock, is preserved in the … of the brass of a priest. (See Plate 39.) This is probably for either Thomas Shalers (died 1451) or William Massenger … in 1465. He was chosen alderman, during his shrievalty, for Castle Baynard Ward and afterwards of Bishopsgate Ward. …
Survey of London
… Esq r some time One of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Monmouth who departed this Life the 2 d day … That empty triffle now hes gon to trade In th' other world for gaines which never sade Thence yow shall see when He … age John Crauford, styled by Bowack "one of her Majesties Commissioners, Son to Commissary David Crawford," lived in …
Survey of London
… 1 & 4, Heytesbury quartering Hungerford with a crescent for difference; 2, gules, 3 garbs argent banded gules, a … Ancient Funeral Monuments (1631): "Of your charitie pray for the soul of Edmund Bray, Knight, Lord Bray, cosin and … man of affairs in the reign of Henry VII. He has credit for the important part he took in arranging the marriage …