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A History of the County of Middlesex
… many Jews bought houses as country retreats. Daniel Defoe commented in the 1720s that Jews seemed to have a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… man who stayed there six weeks a year. 45 As late as 1724 Defoe observed that in winter Hampstead had nothing to … G.L.R.O., Cal. Mdx. Sess. Bks. iii. 115. Below, Frognal. Defoe, Tour, ed. Cole (1927), i. 384. S.C.L., uncat. doc. … Park, Hampstead, 217. Macky, Journey through Eng. i. 89. Defoe, Tour, i. 384. J. Summerson, Georgian Lond. (1945), …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and by the sudden rise to popularity of Belsize. 47 Defoe c. 1724 found that ladies who valued their good name … Cal. Mdx. Sess. Bks. xii. 118; xiii. 11-12; below. Defoe, Tour, i. 385. Below, churches. Para. based on Wroth, … mistakenly connected Sion chapel with Hampstead wells. Defoe, Tour, i. 384-5. Below, manor. Potter, Hampstead Wells, …
Henley and the Chilterns
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… 135, 139; Havinden, 'Rural Economy', 378, 123, 2445; D. Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Gt Britain, ed. G. … Cf. P. Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance (1989), 23; Defoe, Tour, I, 291. e.g. below, Roth. Peppard (communics). …
Henley: Urban Economic History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… in the 1840s. 5 Barge sizes also increased. In the 1720s Defoe reported that vessels operating between London and … At least 17 gardeners made wills between 1628 and 1786. D. Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, ed. … Jn Buckett: ORO, MS Wills Oxon. 9/1/50. PRO, HO 107/874. Defoe, Tour, I, 291; Thacker, Thames Highway, I, 11920. …
Old and New London
… other charitable institutions. It is worthy of note that Defoe, in his "History of the Plague," records not a single …
Survey of London Monograph
… Ford appears to have been written as one word, Oldford. Defoe so writes it in his "Memoirs of the Plague," and so we …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… many of the earthworks erected eighty years before. Defoe wrote: York is indeed a pleasant and beautiful city and … Manors of Clifton and Rawcliffe (1836), Lot 215, p. 23. D. Defoe, A Tour through England and Wales, 17246, Everyman Ed. …
Survey of London Monograph
… practically the whole of his fortune to its endowment. Defoe, in his "Tour through Great Britain" (1724), records a … added considerably to the number of pensioners, and Defoe 13 records that in 1724 the inmates numbered 35. …