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A History of the County of Somerset
… freemasons had a lodge at the Bear from 1793 to 1809 and a French lodge was opened in 1810 for the prisoners of war. A … in a barn at Tout Hill and concerts were organized by the French prisoners of war. 91 Concerts and other entertainments … Protestation Returns, ed. Howard and Stoate, 244; H.L., Papists' return, 1680. P.R.O., RG 12/1903; Sweetman, Hist. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… reign of Edward III. it sustained material injury from the French, who having landed on this part of the coast, burnt a … destruction of Portsmouth and Southampton, in 1337, by the French; also, in the following year, by the plague, which ten … appointed to the see. Here Henry V. gave audience to the French ambassadors, whose insolence on the occasion led to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… money to carry out her design. In 1756 some 5,000 French prisoners were confined in the building 46; again, during the American war it was used as a prison for French, Spanish and Dutch prisoners successively. In 1779 the patients and crew of the French hospital ship S. Julie, which had been captured by an …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Douay and Dam, Brabanters and men of the Duke of Louvain, French and Normans and men of the Emperor with perhaps a few … paid 1 18 s., the London burellers 4 2 s., and of the French 'selds' no less than 40 fenestrae were let at 3 s. a … Daundely, who had removed it. The booths of the Irish and French were still, however, well let, but there is reason to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… and out of repair as to imperil the city if the French landed, as they recently did, to continue …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the 13th century with rubricated capitals, written in old French and much stained and damaged. The other, reported on …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… are preserved some pieces of 16th-century (apparently French Renaissance) wooden canopy-work. In the north transept …
Survey of London
… houses. Inhabitants No. 12. 1770, Nicholas Marcey (French Charity School). No. 13. 18041808, Rev. John Martin …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… it and concealing the quaint belfry on top under a high French-looking conical roof. Lastly, in 1874, the conversion, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… money for his cause by selling or pledging any of his French fiefs, 68 but in the following year the tide turned. … hawthorn hegis knet,' which lay underneath the walls. The French princesthe Dukes of Bourbon and Orleansand other … under an ordinance of April 1643 for seizing the lands of Papists, bishops, deans, deans and chapters and notorious …