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Old and New London
… Bar. Stow tells us that it obtained this name all the more easily as "there was another Minster eastward of the … chapel or oratory. Others, contenting themselves with a more moderate draft upon the faith of their readers, ascribe … or Precinct of the Savoy, which would include about ten more. Over this city we shall wander, first exploring the …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Four new canons were installed on 5 July 1660 and four more by 1 September. They were no longer appointed to …
Old and New London
… Upon this," adds Morrice, "Cromwell forbore to come any more that way, but a little after sickened and died." And yet … frequenting the Cottonian Library. But there are other and more gloomy reminiscences which attach to King Street. … retreat, as likely to sow the seeds of the disease still more widely, and to carry the infection further a-field. It …
Old and New London
… of the geometrical variety of Middlepointed, or, what is more frequently called, "Early Decorated." It is, however, … the club entirely remodelled and improved, at a cost of more than 500, and re-opened in November of that year. The … water consumed at a single trough. It is calculated that more than 1,200 horses, besides a large number of oxen, …
Old and New London
… to hawk or hunt within those boundaries. Though little more than three centuries and a half have passed away since … no less a master than Inigo Jones: "Something there is more needful than expense, And something previous e'en to … Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, the park was little more than a nursery for deer, and an appendage to the …
Old and New London
… of these parts as "Thorny Island, et tout la champ." What more easy than the corruption of these two words into … which had surrounded them even then, and brought them once more into the open ground. They marked the site of a battery … risen out of the earth it could not have surprised them more. Both men wore masks; and whilst one of them stopped the …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… courts for the manor are held here, and adjourned to some more convenient place. Bartholemew Kemp, of Gissing, in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… which bound one large and one small enclosure, with a more disturbed area which includes fragments of stone … further housesites and closes ('b' on plan), but these are more regular with the ditched and embanked boundaries exactly …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… and outer bank. b(617). Cottages, twelve, some now two or more tenements, at West End, are nearly all of two storeys, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the name survives in use does not include Ross or Weston. More serious is the lack of any satisfactory trace here of …