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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… date of use: 1530 Found described as COARSE, dyed of all colours, FINE, flat, FLOWERED, FRENCH, lilac, PLAIN, …
Old and New London
… Here is one by the author of "London: How it Grew:""All honour to St. Giles, whose miraculous springs gave a name … to be truly Roman and ancient." No doubt, in the present day a more exact account would have been placed on record. … Bowyer Lane was the abode of questionable characters of all sorts. Greenacre lived here in 1836the year of the murder …
The Environs of London
… The window has been much mutilated; the heads, however, of all the men, and nine of the women, remain: some of the … vertues fit for ladies brighte; Sir Thomas Hunt on May day's pleasaunt spring, Possest the Frowe that was his soules … 1532, survived him 125 years: but to put the matter out of all doubt, Skynner himself was living in 1467, in which year …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… They were mostly built late in the 17th century, but all have been more or less extensively altered. ConditionGood … the storeys and brick gables. The internal fittings are all of the 18th century. ConditionBad. High Street, Peckham. … are of three storeys and the rest of four storeys and all have had shops added in front. The back elevations are …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… though the tolls belong to the corporation, are held every day in the week, Saturday's being the largest, and are … by depriving them of their charter, and bestowing all the privileges which they had enjoyed upon the … members of the university were exclusively possessed of all ecclesiastical and spiritual jurisdiction over their own …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… and weapons available. There are 52 socketed axes, the all-round tool, mostly in perfect condition, 4 spears, a … which one is a hillfort, pits and ditches and a cemetery. All these occupation sites, like the few of earlier periods, … are personal enough to make him live again for us to-day. The coral-enriched brooch no doubt secured his cloak on …
Survey of London
… buildings are as yet sparse. Camden Town Chapel (now All Saints' Church, see below) had been built in 1824. The … a cost to the parishioners of nearly 20,000, the church of All Saints was originally consecrated as Camden Town Chapel, … without authority as St. Stephen's (the dedication to All Saints was made in 1920). It became a district chapelry …
Old and New London
… Lord Camden's second title was Viscount Bayham; and all these names, Pratt, Jeffreys, Brecknock, and Bayham, may … surrounding districts, presents to an ordinary spectator all the attributes of a market place. At the lower end of … in the ordinary dress of a gentleman of the present day, and holds in one hand a Parliamentary roll. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… been successfully used in scrofulous cases. Camel, West (All Saints) CAMEL, WEST ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Yeovil, hundred of … after March 10th, May 26th, July 17th and 18th (the former day being noted for the sale of sheep and lambs), and Sept. …
Survey of London
… also purchased the sites of Nos. 15 and 23. 33 In 1830 all of the sites which had not yet been built on (and some … The remaining houses on the east side (Nos. 913) were all occupied by 1840 and those on the west side (Nos. 4247) … given the credit for the designs in the journals of the day, his role seems to have been confined to supervising the …