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Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… [ i.e. abusing the memory of Queen Anne, for which Daniel Defoe was arrested Ibid, v, 491]. Court of Conscience. L. 472 …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… and seemed 'more turbulent than the Thames at Gravesend'; Defoe in 1724 was 'near four hours tossed about' from Barton … i. 549. Journeys of Celia Fiennes, ed. C. Morris, 88; D. Defoe, Tour through Gt. Brit. (1928 edn.), ii. 94; Paterson's …
A History of the County of Leicester
… the country areas nearby. Greaves, Corp. of Leic. 57; see Defoe's remarks on the industry, in Tour Through Engl. and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the city into north and south parts, 7 while Daniel Defoe in the 1720s described how Minster Pool 'parts … corporation described it as 'the beauty of the city'. 17 Defoe considered it 'one of the finest and most beautiful in … the 'stately high spires' rising above the city. 21 For Defoe they were 'three beautiful spires, the like of which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… own'd to be one of the neatest in the kingdom' (1712, 23). Defoe described Northampton a little later as 'the handsomest … and best built town in all this part of England' (Defoe: Everyman 1966 II, 86). Fig. 17 Upton (6) Deserted … route centre with its great inns a dominating feature. Defoe observed that the George Inn 'looks more like a palace …
Survey of London
… from the first decade, and it is not difficult to envisage Defoe's 'World full of Bricklayers and Labourers'. A handful …
Survey of London
… and presently there goes up a House.' So wrote Daniel Defoe in Applebee's Weekly Journal in 1725. 1 He was … the western suburbs of London since the Restoration, but Defoe described the latest phase which followed the … of the capital, may have provided much of the impetus. Defoe remarked on the contrast between the depopulation of …
Survey of London
… of domes and porticoes, however, are out of place, for Defoe, while deploring that such a building should be erected …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and so continued till the coming of the railway. 64 Defoe's Tour (ed. 1778) speaks of Alresford as having 'now a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and Orange Street are significant of the date of the town. Defoe described it as a suburb, or rather a new town, which … Dep. Mich. 4 Jas. I, 24. Stat. 32 Geo. III, cap. 103. a Defoe, Journ (ed. 1778). Extracts from the Portsmouth Rec. 85 …