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Old and New London
… of BromptonIts Nurseries and Flower-gardensCromwell or Hale HouseThistle GroveThe BoltonsWestminster and West … Grove, Brompton, lived and died the antiquary, John Sidney Hawkins, the eldest son of Sir John Hawkins, Dr. Johnson's friend and biographer. He died about …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… the Fosse. A stream flows west to join the Southwood brook or Emmett, 2 below 23 m. (75 ft). Another runs south from … SRO, DD/SF 4031. SRO, DD/SF 3135; 3149; DD/X/EA 1; M. J. Hawkins (ed.), Sales of Wards in Somerset, 160341 (Som. Rec. Soc. 67, 1965), 127. SRO, DD/SAS FA 26; DD/X/EA 1; Hawkins, Sales of Wards, 127; F. A. Crisp (ed.) Abstracts of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… tenants, who were later described as holding by copy or by descent, held between them 27 reeve-lands, usually c. … a process which was presumably hastened by the decline or absence of manor courts. In 1607 Boseley manor comprised, … and at his death in 1767 he left cider-making equipment at Hawkins Pill, just over the boundary with Newnham, and a brig …
Old and New London
… Palace is far from being so magnificent as Versailles is, or the Tuilleries once were, yet it has about it an air of … being occupied by the Earl of Arlington, whose name is, or ought to be, indissolubly linked with it, on one account … on the occasion above mentioned; and he once told Sir John Hawkins that, in a visit to Mrs. Percy, who had the care of …
Old and New London
… Home for NursesThe National SocietyAnecdote about Sir John Hawkins's "History of Music"Her Majesty's Stationery … charming song which begins: "He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires." Here, too, lived Charles, Lord … of books and apparatus for schools. In May, 1789, Sir John Hawkins, the author of the "History of Music," and of a "Life …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the north and north-east, and settlements at Andersea, Ham or Hamland, 7 and Moorland, extending into Middlezoy, to the … Andersea and Moorland, probably the site of the former Ham or Hamland. 15 Langmead and Weston Level have been declared … for sale in 1696 21 and by 1703 was acquired by Benjamin Hawkins, an Exeter merchant, who was succeeded by his …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wheatenhurst or Whitminster Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER … in 1721 to Nathaniel Cambridge. 13 Cambridge died in 1725 or 1726, leaving a young son, the poet Richard Owen … the rectory belonged to Mary, 51 widow of Jasper Selwyn Hawkins, and in 1841 she and other trustees under her …
Survey of London
… Wardour Street follow the line of an ancient thoroughfare or path known as Hedge Lane or Colman Hedge Lane, in … No. 18.John Wilson (1693), Widow Colverson (1694), Joseph Hawkins or Hodgkins (169599), Richard Hodgkins (1700), Joseph Hodgkins (170104), Widow Hawkins (170510), William Perkins (171114), John Carrold …
Survey of London
… 152930, Thomas Alvarde was appointed keeper of "our place or messuage called York Place." The Privy Purse Expenses show … Brightman mentioned above, consisting of the "Berehouse [or Brewhouse] buylded at Endiff." It obviously lay behind The … the pale & wharf lately lett to Ferme unto one William Hawkyns agaynst the Sowth & the comon dyche callyd Clowson …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Gosport, and comprises 2433 acres, of which 187 are common or waste land. Courts leet and baron are held annually; and a … and tithes were given by the famous admiral, Sir John Hawkins, in the reign of Elizabeth, to the hospital for … has been erected here: the union comprises forty parishes or places, and contains a population of 21,051. Mr. John …