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The Environs of London
… the court wall as the places where he deposited his gains. Kirby Castle. The old mansion above-mentioned, called in the … was built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by John Kirby, citizen of London. Fleetwood, the recorder of London, … (about the year 1578), mentions the death of "John Kirby, who built the fair house upon BethnalGreen, which …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… (once North and later Sceptre Road), formerly part of Kirby's Castle estate. Having cleared 'one of the worst …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… estate, was in the heart of the borough on the site of Kirby's Castle. Privacy had been threatened at Bethnal House asylum (Kirby's Castle) by the construction of Sutton Dwellings and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Soda's and Crisp's houses 66 and, above all, with Kirby's Castle. In 1592 Kirby's Castle had at least 100 fruit trees and a garden with … strawberries I ever saw, and good'. 69 Before he moved to Kirby's Castle, Platt had leased Bishop's Hall which had a …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… late 1950s and early 1960s. 87 The copyhold estate called KIRBY'S CASTLE was built up by John Kirby or Kirkby (d. 1578). Its core was a house and 3½ a. … of the Common Pleas. Walsh's executors sold them to Kirby, 90 who acquired 2¾ a. called Stonerock 91 in 1575 and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… waste on the east side of the green, in front of the later Kirby's Castle. Enclosed with a brick wall, it was apparently … ditches or common sewers were recorded by 1660 near Kirby's Castle, 5 by the 1670s next to Shoreditch cemetery, 6 … House lunatic asylum 71 opened as a private madhouse in Kirby's Castle between its lease to Matthew Wright in 1726 72 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the east side of the green: the Corner House (Pyott's) and Kirby's Castle. 32 Among other inhabitants were Edward Grey, … of a fine house within a stone wall (presumably Kirby's Castle) with the beggar's dwelling, 54 and the figure … to be displacing the 'better sort of people' in 1743. 72 Kirby's Castle had probably ceased to house people of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green was reaffirmed. 61 There was a bowling alley at Kirby's Castle in the 1590s 62 and a bowling green in Wilmot …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… House of Art and Nature, 52 and frontispiece; above, Kirby's Castle; below, econ. hist. (agric.). Marriage Regs. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 30 By c. 1550 Sir John Gresham's house, rebuilt as Kirby's Castle in the 1570s, adjoined the green just south of … principal estates 1 Dickens, 2 Pyott, 3 Poor's Lands, 4 Kirby's Castle, 5 Penn, 6 St. Paul's. The boundary is that of … there were another two by 1766. 92 South of Green Street Kirby's Castle had wealthy occupants throughout the 17th …