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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… under its control were the keeper of the county gaol and house of correction at Fisherton Anger, and the keepers of … misdemeanours, before the Protestant Dissenting Meeting House, in Laycock..., with a view to break the peace, and … the gaol for seventy years, and after their time the house they occupied at the gaol was rented off separately. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Prisoners, the allowance for this duty is 2 s. 6 d. at the House of Correction; we think the remuneration should be the … old bridewell at Devizes; the Marlborough bridewell; the house of correction, or 'New Prison' as quarter sessions … a prison. The building is too much like a common dwelling-house at present'. 49 But in 1853 the inspector condemned its …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Marquess of Bath. He had been a well-liked member of the House of Commons and figured briefly as under-secretary of … being the county town.' 13 After the purchase of Arlington House in 1896 the question slumbered till 1929, when the … district council failed, after due notice, to demolish a house considered unfit for human habitation 49a power rarely …
The Environs of London
… she readily assented. Wulfhilda retired to a religious house which she had founded at Horton in Dorsetshire. The … one of the abbesses. Chapel of "the Holy rood loste atte gate." At the entrance of Barking church-yard stands an … over which is "the chapel of the holy rood loste atte gate edified" (as is expressed in an old record 52,) "to the …
The Environs of London
… Grove alias Pricklers, the seat of Andrew Reid, Esq. This house (with the lands adjoining) was sold by the crown, in … Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1573, gave to this parish a house and garden (situated in the town) for a free-school, in … school, and the same sum annually for the repairs of the house; and in case the physic well 13 should become of no use …
The Environs of London
… mentioned, by her second husband, resided in the manor-house of Beckenham as lessee; and that he entertained Henry … Langleypark, where he resides in the summer season. Kent-house. Kent-house, in this parish, was for several generations the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for 300, and the glebe comprises 60 acres, with a glebe-house. The church, supposed to have been built about the year … Samuel, who bequeathed 500 for the erection of a school-house, a rent-charge of 80 for the master, and another of 20 … tithes have been commuted for 267. 10.; there is a glebe-house, and the glebe comprises 13 acres. The church, an …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… street with a triangular green at the S. end and the manor house and its garden S. and S.E. again. The manor house is depicted as a long straight range with multiple … the date 1580 on it. Further W., to the W. of the present House was another group of buildings on the S. side of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The abbot of Abingdon's court met in Thomas of St. John's house between c. 1110 and 1117. 5 The abbot's right to hold … probably acquired a court with the manor outside the east gate between 1189 and 1199; 7 before 1253 Henry III freed the … recorded in 1311, stood in Cornmarket Street near North Gate; its removal in 1325 led to protests by the university, …
A Dictionary of London
… have been vaults and underground passages belonging to his house. Coxe's Passage West out of Aldersgate Street, a little …