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Old and New London
… to the house formerly inhabited by Jeremy Bentham. The cotton willow-tree planted by the great poet was in a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wharfs and warehouses. There are two silk-factories, a cotton-factory, and two breweries; but the chief trade of the … acres, is the property of the Blackledge family. A cotton-mill in Wheelton is the property of Hugh Unsworth, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the advowson of the vicarage, to Thomas Reeve and George Cotton. 44 Reeve and Cotton may have been acting as trustees for Henry Clifford of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… HALL, which in the seventeenth century belonged to the Cotton family, and on the death of Nathan Cotton, in 1661, appears to have passed to Elizabeth Jenkins. … being fitted with an ornamental shield bearing the arms of Cotton and the date 1655. This shield also bears a crescent …
Old and New London
… some, as the pots, are occasionally placed on straw. The cotton prints are often heaped on the ground, where are also …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… very much of late years, through the extension of the cotton-trade. The ecclesiastical district of Whitfield was …
Survey of London
… my little closet at Whitehall, and send well packt up in cotton in a pacquet box the little glasses of spirit of roses …
Survey of London
… door of his Chamber." Next day he was taken to Sir Robert Cotton's house near the west end of Westminster Hall, where …
Old and New London
… The nostrils were filled with a substance like cotton. The brain had been extracted by dividing the scalp. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to Mr. Edward Craven, of Dalton Lodge, and his partners. A cotton-mill, established in 1838, and employing 150 hands, …