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Old and New London
… him in the Long Acurs, the bak-syd Charyng Crosse; and a boy that kyld a byge boye that sold papers and prynted bokes … a stone, and yt hym under the ere in Westmynster Hall; the boy was one of the chylderyn that was at the sckoll ther in the Abbey; the boy ys a hossear sune aboyff London-stone." We have given at …
Old and New London
… night in King Streete a woman had her eye put out by a boy's flinging a firebrand into the coach. Now, after all …
Old and New London
… other writers too) that the attainments of many of the boy-scholars in those "dark ages" were of no mean order, and … of those thus drafted off to Oxford and Cambridge, each boy remaining four years in the college before presenting … clients before the head-master, who presides as judge. The boy who is finally victorious is "chaired" on a ladder three …
Old and New London
… up her Residence hereRoyal Guests from Foreign Parts"The Boy Jones"Marriage of the Princess Augusta of CambridgeThe … her carriage to enter the palace, the only object of "the boy Jones," as he was called, appears to have been notoriety, … "Journal," says"A little scamp of an apothecary's errand-boy, named Jones, has the unaccountable mania of sneaking …
Old and New London
… cur,' and asked him 'who had made Anne a saint?' The boy, in some confusion, inquired of the next he met which was …
Old and New London
… 1829. In form, the enclosure takes somewhat the shape of a boy's kite, the head or broad part of which, towards …
Old and New London
… the chaise, and scrutinised the occupants within. The post-boy spoke in too low a tone to be heard by the travellers, … horses' heads in the direction of the town, and the post-boy proceeded on his journey. Upon reaching their destination, they asked the 'boy' who his rather suspiciouslooking friends were, to which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of their daughter, created a fund for apprenticing a boy yearly: Thomas Green, in 1739, gave certain lands for the …