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Old and New London
… use it freely." The park is still regularly patrolled at night by two of the horse guards whenever Her Majesty is in …
Old and New London
… neither the only nor the latest toper who has spent last night in this fair city "a drinking at the Chequers." Swan …
A History of the County of Somerset
… were kept, not only for maintenance but for watching at night to prevent flooding or malicious damage. In the 1840s … 7 By 1867 100 children attended in winter and up to 40 at night school, attendance in summer was poor, and it was said …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… octagonal lantern surmounted by a dome, and displaying at night a brilliant light for two hours before, and two hours …
A Dictionary of London
… the house to be cleansed and gate to be kept locked at night, 49 Ed. III. (Cal. L. Bk. H. p. 7). Chapel of St. …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… taste the bolus of which he presently complayned; and that night both the Apothecaryes men came and shewed him the …
Old and New London
… or Breton born, who most "unkindly and cruelly," by night, murdered the said widow as she slept in her bed, and … the town are gone mad after? There are a dozen dukes of a night at Goodman's Fields, sometimes, and yet I am still in …
Old and New London
… for idle, vagrant, loose, and disorderly persons, and 'night walkers,' who are there set to hard labour, but receive … keep up a conversation with each other from morning to night. The total number of persons confined here in 1842 was …