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… George Street) Date and Description. York Buildings, the name which was once used generically for all the premises on the site of York House, was assigned to George Street circa 1852. Only four houses there, Nos. 6, … circa 1676, but it has undergone many alterations. The upper flights of the stairs still retain their original close …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… York Castle THE DEFENCES OF THE CITY OF YORK AN INVENTORY Note. The … the circuit S.W. of the Ouse from Skeldergate Bridge, to Lendal Bridge, then, across the river, by Bootham and Monk … 29 A tower, perhaps the keep, had been repaired to house Queen Isabella in 1327. 30 In 1333 an exchequer for Queen …
Survey of London Monograph
… HERALD Spelman thought that York herald was originally the officer of Edmund of Langley, created Duke of York in 1385, but the first reliable reference to York is in 1484 (see John Water). He is now one of the six … Guards; Portcullis 1949; 1953 M.V.O. and Extra Equerry to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; York 1957; succeeded as …
Survey of London
… York House CHAPTER 6: YORK HOUSE The York Water Gate (see pp. 5960) in the Victoria Embankment … Strand between the Temple and Charing Cross. a York House, to which the York Water Gate formed the river approach, was … c Early in 1556 the Duke's heirs surrendered 191 it to the Queen, by whom 192 it was almost immediately granted to …
Survey of London
… York Place CHAPTER 1: YORK PLACE Towards the end of the twelth century Richard of Ely (also known as … These in 1197, 1 the year before his death, he granted to his cousin, William of Ely, the King's treasurer. The … at the Archbishop of York's house for the household of the Queen, as well as for a house over the water made for the …
Survey of London
… COURT York Place, a narrow court running parallel with the Strand between Villiers Street and George Court, was … called exchange Alley, probably from its prosimity to the New Exchange, but within the first few years of its … stripped of any panelling and the rooms are now plain. The upper part of the stairs, however, is original and consists …
Survey of London
… York Road CHAPTER 7 - YORK ROAD [See plates 25, 26 and 27.] The first Waterloo Bridge Act contained a clause for the continuation of Stamford Street across Waterloo Road to Westminster Bridge Road. The new road, which was for … are the Wives of poor Industrious Tradesmen or distressed House-keepers, and who either from unavoidable Misfortunes or …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… and Elizabeth his wife, sister and heir of Thomas Aleynson The moiety of 8 messuages with lands in Calton, Northby in … kt., Thomas Louell, kt., Jo Mordaunt, serjeant at law to the king, James Hobert, Richard Emson, and Thomas Lucas … 1505 MICHAELMAS TERM, 21 HENRY VII. John the Prior of the House or Church of Holy Trinity at Lenton, near Notyngham …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… Hilton and Hoton. 1511 MICHAELMAS TERM, 3 HENRY VIII. ** The King Katherine Courtney, Countess of Devon, one of the daughters and heirs of Edward IV., Thomas Harward, kt., … and 20 messuages with lands, &c., in Nether, Middil, and Upper Walton and Sandall. Robert Wheteley Lodowic Passage and …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… Manors of Thwyng and Octon and 50 messuages with lands in the same, and in Swathorp, Kyllom, and Langtoft. Ralph Higdon … Bulmer, esq., and Elizabeth his wife A fourth part of the manors of Multon and Atlowculton and 33 messuages and 28 cottages with lands in the same and in Southeculton, Hoton sup. Wyske, Little …