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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… and stockingmakers were recorded in the 18th century and Defoe described Cary as a principal clothing town making …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… architects' plans and provided the biographical inf. D. Defoe, A Tour through Great Britain, int. G.D.H. Cole (1927), … from Prof. D. Pigott, University of Lancaster; D.N.B. D. Defoe, Tour, i. 75. Camb. Evening News, 27 Aug. 1976. S. …
A History of the County of Essex
… been grown on 3½ acres of 'hoppground' in the parish. 62 Defoe, writing in 1722 described Ongar as part of an area …
Survey of London Monograph
… 1849). There are many mentions of the plague at Stepney in Defoe (Edit. Bell & Co. 1891). He says, that besides the … grace 'Mongst saints and Angels now hath took its place. Defoe's account of the Plague was published 57 years after …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fencing their grounds and breeding and grasseing cattle.' Defoe, 61 in 1724, was far less gloomy. Though also impressed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… known through ministers' accts. (Bentham, Ely, ii, 53). Defoe referred to the numerous wells early in the 18th …
Survey of London
… the 'musical small-coal man' (see page 139). 52 Daniel Defoe's first child, Daniel, was baptised here in 1708. 53 …
Old and New London
… Feather Bed Lane, but why we do not know, unless boys like Defoe's Colonel Jack lolled, burrowed, and gambolled on the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 26 Counties . . . 1634, ed. L. G. Wickham Legg (1904), 9; Defoe, Tour through Eng. and Wales (1928 edn.), ii. 94; …
Old and New London
… Thomas Garway hath tea to sell from 16s. to 50s. a pound." Defoe (1722) mentions Garraway's as frequented about noon by … Cornhill, taken down about 1848 to build larger houses, Defoe carried on the business of hose-factor in 1702, as we …