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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Stalre had 30 acres of land, with 8 of meadow, valued at 8 s. the soc and sac of the 2 freemen was in Ralph, and the soc … dower: and Odo, son of Odo, paid 100 marks for his father's lands at Mendlesham in Suffolk, &c. 2 It was a numerous … his will is dated September 26, 1557, and died in Chancery-lane, London, October 3d following, seized of it, and of the …
Old and New London
… explore, And long perplexing lanes untrod before." Gay's "Trivia." The Locality a Century agoA Pair of Eccentric Old … of BaseBloomsbury deserted by the AristocracyAlbert Smith's Remarks on this once Patrician Quarter of LondonThe … and Red Lion Square, north and south, and Gray's Inn Lane and Bloomsbury, east and west, was once the patrician …
Old and New London
… RadcliffeFashionable ResidentsPoor Sir Richard SteelePope's Allusion to Bloomsbury SquareSir Hans Sloane and his "Curiosities"The Gordon RiotsAttack on Lord Mansfield's HouseCharles Knight's Residence in this SquareIsaac … him with pity in his palace, with his allies from Chancery Lane thus ominously guarding him!" The same incident is said …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Bloxworth 5 BLOXWORTH (8894) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 89 SE, bSY 89 NE) The long narrow parish of … lies some 5 m. N.N.W. of Wareham across the N. edge of the S. Dorset heath. The N. third of the parish is on Chalk and … a(11) House (160 yds. E.S.E.) on the W. side of Newport Lane, of two storeys with walls of brick, was built in the …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Bludworth-Brakell Bludworth-Brakell Bludworth, Charles y.s. Thomas, of London, equitis. Christ Church, matric. 13 … Peter-le-Poor, London, 1662, and of St. Leonard's, Foster Lane, 1663, died 11 Feb., 1668-9, buried in Westminster Abbey … 1605, aged 14; bar.-at-law, Gray's Inn, 1614, some time of Barnard's Inn. See John 1608, and Foster's Gray's Inn …
A Dictionary of London
… (The) On the east side of Fish Street Hill, adjoining King's Head Court. It was so called before the Fire and had been … 1903, p. 4). Blue Boar Court See Princes Street, Rosemary Lane. Blue Boar Court South out of Chick Lane and west to Hide's Rents, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury
… first half of the 19th century. The symmetrical three-bay S. front was built after 1857 in replacement of the original … lease in 1724 and a terrier of 1740 mentions 'Mr. Cooper's new-built house'. 1 The present front is of the late 19th … (343) Houses, five adjoining, Nos. 2634 Chipper Lane, are of three storeys with brick walls and tiled roofs …
Survey of London: volume
… At first the school was held in hired buildings in Duck Lane, but in 1709 William Greene, who held a lease, at an … now Caxton Street, built thereon a school and schoolmaster's house. 2 In 1727 he assigned his lease, which was then for … one year before the final stone of the lantern of St. Paul's Cathedral was placed in position, naturally suggests the …
Survey of London Monograph
… 23. JOHN HUTTON Guisnes, c. October 1527. Bluemantle, p.s. 24 April, pat. 6 May 1528. First named as Guisnes 1 … last Risebank; in France at New Year 1559; bur d St Bride's, Fleet St, 10 October 1559. Arms: Azure, on a bend or 3 … Bluemantle nearly fifty years was not promoted; d. in Ivy Lane (parish of St Faith), London, 2 August 1718 aged 89 and …
Survey of London
… This stood at the junction of Augustine Road and Blythe Lane, and the house and drive are clearly marked on Salter's map of 1830 (Plate 2). The house was in a dilapidated … occupied in 1740 by Captain Henry Doughty." In Warburton's map (1710) the house is also given as the residence of …