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Survey of London
… conservative rebuilding. Discussion of aspects of the area's early history and a chronological outline of development … Matthews, looking east from Bagnigge Wells Road to Merlin's Cave at the top of the hill. To the left, the Spa Fields … only until 1834. Here Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett, later Lady Boothby and a famously spirited actress, performed as a girl …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a little wood. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 28, and in the gift of the Rev. T. F. R. Read, … A bequest amounting to 16 per annum, made by Thomas Boothby in 1682, is distributed among poor widows; and 13, … wapentake of Staincross, W. riding of York, 5 miles (S. E. by E.) from Wakefield; containing 167 inhabitants. It …