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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… from TOURS and Touraine in the 1680s. In 1692, the Royal Lutestring Company was set up to exploit the patent of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Saxons it was a place of great importance, and a royal residence; the inhabitants being described by Capgrave …
Survey of London
… Situated in Piccadilly, Now in the Occupation of His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and For Making Large … accommodation of families and was to be known as the Royal York Hotel. It was to be opened at 'Midsummer next'. 74 … of the Mansion House and Premises lately occupied by His Royal Highness The Duke of York'. Henry Holland's authorship …
Survey of London
… to Mr. Summerson, 125 the oldest house standing on the royal estate. It is of four storeys above ground, showing … cornice above the main entrance is an achievement of the royal arms with supporters and behind there rises a domed … separate identity of typhus and typhoid. President of the Royal College of Physicians, 18818. No. 24. (formerly No. …
Survey of London
… Fishmongers' Companies, several inns, the Feathers, the Royal Oak, etc., and the glasshouse of John Bellingham. 287 … Kennington Lane was built across this property, the old Royal Oak Tavern being pulled down for the purpose. The …
Survey of London
… The 'acting Man', however, was to be the President of the Royal Academy and former associate of the Prince, Sir Charles … most touching monuments ever erected in this country to a Royal Consortthe exquisite "Eleanor Crosses'". He continued: … supported by the researches of Professor Hofmann of the Royal College of Chemistry, had for a time some effect: it …
Survey of London
… inventions was laborious. (Armstead's albums in the Royal Academy contain some of the portraits that he … 232 and they also disappeared. The gaps were filled by two Royal AcademiciansWilliam Calder Marshall and Henry Weekes. … ten names had shown no particular respect for the rank of Royal Academician, but there was perhaps a change of attitude …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and bourne, a brook. Aidbourn anciently gave name to a royal chase, granted by Henry VIII. to Edward Seymour, Duke … by various military operations in the civil war. The royal army under the command of Col. Gage, on its way from … necessarily definitive, being subject to an appeal to the royal court at Guernsey, and from that to the queen in …
A Dictionary of London
… and East Smithfield. The site was afterwards covered by Royal Mint Square (q.v.). Aldgate Hermitage In a turret of …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… University 1525. Executed for high treason (in denying the royal supremacyl, July 6, 1535. 1512 Richard Broke was one of …