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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Strawberry Hill. The stained glass in the central apse is French work of the late 12th and early 13th centuries; the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… h.p. 40 The years after 1815 also witnessed the revival of French competition; from this time onwards a rapid and … 43 under the patronage of Lord Pembroke the secrets of French manufacturing processes were introduced into the town … in the 18th century; the industry survived the revival of French competition after 1815, and in 1825 bought out the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a woman teacher taught junior elementary subjects, and French, German, music, drill and carpentry were taught by …
The Environs of London
… says the Survey, "the minister of Wimbledon and the French gardiner of Wimbledon oringe-garden doe live 60. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… In the S. bay the ground-floor opening has a square-headed french window with glazing bars forming pointed lights; the …
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 … II and those accompanying William of Orange. 12 In 1804 French, and some Spanish, prisoners of war, including many …
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 …