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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… other piano nobile windows are fitted with 19th-century french casements. The chamber windows, string-courses and … of class J, and some rooms have stop-chamfered beams. (20) French's Farm (02801246), house, of two storeys with brick …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… tiled. An extension at the S.E. end has disappeared. a(8) French House (Class I), single-storey cottage with two barrel …
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 … 1951, to 3,324 in 1981, and to 4,151 in 1991. 8 Impressed soldiers were exercised in the parish in 1640 9 and Prince …
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 … to the relics of the illustrious dead, whose bones the soldiers scattered about the church; the statues of James and …
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
… thirty-two newcomers into the city, five married soldiers, six cases of dangerous fireplaces, eleven cases of … the 13th century with rubricated capitals, written in old French and much stained and damaged. The other, reported on …