Search
Survey of London
… College This school, for the education and maintenance of boys born in Yorkshire or of Yorkshire parents, was founded …
Old and New London
… for Queen's ScholarsRivalry between Westminster and Eton Boys"Fagging." Under the wing of almost every abbey and … a large abbey was founded, a school for the instruction of boys in religious and useful learning was sure to spring up, … almoner of the monastery to a schoolmaster for teaching boys grammar. This salary continued to be paid down to the …
Old and New London
… that she had seen her two eldest brothers, when they were boys of thirteen and fourteen, held by their arms at …
Old and New London
… for twelve poor persons, and a school for twenty boys, known as the "Black-Coat School," under the parochial … Lane was first kept, in 1688, the Blue-Coat School, for boys only, and supported by voluntary contributions; and in … strange medley. The rival cocks are being backed up by two boys, called feeders, dressed in red jackets and yellow …
Old and New London
… hard frost), the Duke of York records"This morning the boys began to slide upon the canal in the park." St. James's …
Old and New London
… to those who don't care to meddle with Prince Charley's boys!' The mystery seemed now greater than before, and … of ten men and ten women, as pensioners; and also for ten boys and ten girls, with a master for the former and a … in Westminster, each providing accommodation for 300 boys, of whom 200 in each should pay a small sum for their …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Nevertheless the old were helped by weekly payments 35 and boys were apprenticed to farmers. 36 On account of high grain …