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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… the N. of Lensfield Road between Regent Street on the E. and Tennis Court Road on the W. The buildings generally are of two storeys, some with cellars and attics. The principal elevations are of Ketton stone … are lit only from the E.; their four windows open into wells sunk in the roof and screened by the upper part of the …
Survey of London
… the south "a house or Inn heretofore called the Peacocke," and the same boundary is mentioned in earlier descriptions of the property. The Peacock belonged to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, who on 30th April, 1605, leased 1 … tenement of the said Deane & Chapter on the south parte, and the tenement sometymes apperteining to the Abbott and …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… Draft Report. TO THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES. In pursuance of a minute of the Board of the 28th … day of March 1862, I have inquired into the present state and administration of Boone's Charity in the parish of Lee, … of the 22 June 1683, the founders, Christopher Boone and Mary his wife, after conveying the almshouses and chapel …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… hectares, lying on the W. slopes of a flat-topped ridge and bounded on the W. by a S.-flowing stream. Most of the … streams have produced a rolling landscape of spurs and valleys cut into Northampton Sand and Upper Lias Clay. Near the village, beds of the Lower …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Chippenham, hundred of Malmesbury, Chippenham and Calne, and N. divisions of Wilts, 3 miles (N. by E.) from … of Axbridge, and partly in that of Rodney-Stoke, union of Wells, hundred of Winterstoke, E. division of the county of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Celtic tongue, oak. It is intersected by the river Irt, and bounded on the south by the Mite, and on the west by the Irish Sea, near the shore of which is … and with part of the remains of Adrian's wall. Two draw-wells, cased with fine ashlar work, were discovered about …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to some ceremony or function. By the early-modern period, and in the Dictionary Archive, it was more commonly applied … 'every ornament for ladies dresses' [Newspapers (1790)], and 'Fur Dresses for the Winter are arrived from London, … consisting of the most fashionable Muffs, Fur Trimmings and Tippets' [Newspapers (1790)]. OED earliest date of use in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… they were imported into this country; that is, cleaned and dried in the sun. Because most ginger arrived ready … Drying would be a cheaper alternative to candying, and would preserve the peel until needed. However, a recipe … complicated, but the result was that both the outer rind and the pith were in effect candied separately in decorative …
Old and New London
… THEATRE. "I sing of the singe of Miss Drury the First, And the birth of Miss Drury the Second." Rejected Addresses. … BracegirdleLovely "Nancy" OldfieldColley Cibber as Manager and DramatistGarrick at Drury LaneKitty Clive, the Comic … year. It was not until 1782, when her performance at the Bath Theatre had excited general admiration, that she …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… where the Cambridge to Huntingdon road is the boundary, and highest, about 230 ft., at the S. end which stops against … Dry Drayton The soil is boulder clay on the higher ground and gault on the lower ground; the village lies at the … is merely so called 'for that it standeth in the Upland and Champion countrie, thereby to distinguish it from the …