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Survey of London
… of the said Mary Lowe who Departed this Life the Twenty first day of April 1751 Aged fifty three Years 131. On a flat …
Survey of London
… left in store sole comfort of theyr mother & my wife. The world can say what I have bin before what I am now examples …
Survey of London
… brass plate from this monument is also preserved below the first. It bears an achievement of arms: Quarterly, I, lozengy … she had lyved yeres xlvi she departed this transitory world at her maner of chelse y e xxii daye of ianvary in y e … his allegiance to england in the 1 st year of the great war. 49. PAUL BEDFORD, 1871. 50. A modern marble tablet with …
Survey of London
… ELIZABETH, CHARLES, IOHN, & RICH= =ARD; whereof y e four first are still Survi= =ving His Wife ELIZABETH having lived … great and noble qualities, whose life through the Civil War was an eventful one before she married Charles Cheyne and … Esq re of the Soke in Winchester. She was twice Married, first to John Wybarnd Esq re. of Hawkwell in Kent by whom she …
The Environs of London
… Chelsey. The modern way of spelling seems to have been first used about a century ago. Skinner derives Chelsea from … the House of Commons 92, lived at Chelsea during the civil war. Count D'Estrades. Count D'Estrades, Ambassador from … after she had lyved yeres 46, she departed this transitory world at her maner of Chelse y e 22 daye of January, in y e …
The Environs of London
… as that of Chelsea, within the last two centuries. In the first year of Edward VI. it appears by the Chantry Roll 156, … He was a great sufferer for his loyalty during the civil war. Arthur Gorges. "Arthur Gorges, Esq. was buried Ap 1 8, … was passing among his old acquaintance in the literary world 197. Sir Hans died at Chelsea, after an illness of only …
The Environs of London
… Willoughby, married Aug. 4, 1713." James Bridges, the first Duke of Chandos, married to his second wife Cassandra, … married Feb. 21, 1716-7." "Rev d Augustine Frazer, the first chaplain upon the establishment of this royal hospital, … pay for here in England, though it be free for all the world besides; every coach and horse which enters buying his …
Old and New London
… King's RoadThe Old Burial-groundSt. Mark's CollegeThe "World's End" TavernChelsea CommonFamous NurseriesChelsea … Streets, and eastward to "Blackland's Lane," as it was first called, afterwards Marlborough Road; or perhaps … by the road or lane which is now Sloane Street. It is first spoken of as "Chelsea Heath," and it appears to have …
Old and New London
… our sympathies, since, according to popular tradition, the first idea of converting it into an asylum for broken-down … being at one time used as a receptacle for prisoners of war, and at another as a riding-house. Its next destination … with Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds, to see the great world of which he at once knew so much and so little. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… at the Dissolution, was 32. 4. During the parliamentary war, the inhabitants adhered firmly to the royal cause, and … with water from springs. A neat building, of which the first stone was laid in November, 1838, by the high sheriff … Elizabeth in 1559, is on Wednesday: the fairs are on the first Monday and Tuesday in Lent, for cattle; May 14th, for …