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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… was derived. The village is delightfully embowered in wood, and sheltered by hills of moderate elevation; on the … appropriated to the guilds, separated by partitions of wood, on the front of which, emblematical devices … and a half feet long, and a chwelyd, or round staff of wood, gradually rising from the base and gradually projecting …
A New History of London
… the Thames bank town; from the British word Llbwn a wood, and Dinas, a town; from Llong a ship, and Dinas a town, …
A New History of London
… in the Star-chamber: in consideration of the decay of wood, persons were also ordered to front their houses with …
A New History of London
… who ventured to obstruct them; and retired to Cane-wood near Hampstead, where they passed the night. The next … morning a party of horse and foot drove them out of the wood, and took some of them prisoners; but the remainder of … house where the fire began being full of faggots and brush-wood, the fire raged with great fury, and spreading four ways …
A New History of London
… Allhallows the Great Allhallows the Less 200 St. Albans's, Wood-street St. Olave's, Silver-street 170 St. Anne, St. … St. Mildred, Poultry St. Mary Colechurch 170 St. Michael, Wood-street St. Mary Staining 100 St. Mildred, Bread-street …
A New History of London
… of St. Mary Aldermary, five pinnacles of St. Alban's Wood-street, one of the spires of St. Saviour's Southwark, … in their houses made use of sail cloth, tarpaulins or wood, as temporary expedients, till the season for making …
A New History of London
… the lord-mayor that she saw three lanthorns among the wood work on the sterlings just before the flames broke out. … so scandalous an attempt. In such a mixture of stone and wood, a heap of quick lime on the sterlings, accidentally … been seen among the timbers, and upon examination the wood was found scorched in three different places. The latter …
A New History of London
… the end of Chancery-lane, in Fleet-street, at the end of Wood-street in Cheapside, and at the Royal Exchange, the …
A New History of London
… committee of city lands being read, which represented that Wood-street computer was in so ruinous a state that it must …