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A History of the County of Chester
… in St. Olave's ward and c. 25 on the east side of Northgate Street. Civilians thus numbered an estimated 6,056. … size of 5.53 and a density of 9 people per house in Northgate Street indicate the degree of overcrowding. Much …
A History of the County of Chester
… poor could be set to work. The house opened outside the Northgate in 1576, under the supervision of three aldermen …
A History of the County of Chester
… the repairs. 15 About 1760 a foot passage was made at the Northgate, partly to save children from being run over. 16 As …
A History of the County of Chester
… sermon and the consolation of condemned prisoners in the Northgate gaol. 3 Some of the Presbyterian and Independent … both persuasions. The main meetings were in White Friars, Northgate Street, and Grange Lane. 10 The number of recusants …
A History of the County of Chester
… strengthen them, and new drawbridges were installed at the Northgate, Eastgate, and Bridgegate. Extensive outworks were … km. long, ran from midway between the Water Tower and the Northgate in a north-westerly direction, then eastwards across Upper Northgate Street and Flooker's brook to Flookersbrook Hall, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as owner of the 'waste' of the city and, after 1592, of Northgate hundred, 88 controlled encroachments on the streets … College built a covered corn-market in the middle of Northgate Street, and was also credited with improving the … and land in the Greyfriars, a lease of the profits of Northgate hundred, and other properties in Kidlington and …
A History of the County of Chester
… mayor's piepowder court, and in 1484 after a scuffle in Northgate Street during the Midsummer fair the mayor ordered … to arrest the participants and imprison them in the Northgate, an action recorded by the town clerk as 'on behalf … 1740s. Its rapid growth led to the construction east of Northgate Street of a linen hall, a private speculation by …
A History of the County of Chester
… on the fairground outside the abbey gatehouse in Northgate Street, a location referred to as a forum by the … a new common hall in St. Nicholas's chapel adjoining the Northgate Street market place in 1545 marked a further stage … for country butchers, and after a brief spell in the Northgate gaol members of the Butchers' company were forced …
A History of the County of Chester
… by 1872. 186 The abbot also had a windmill outside the Northgate by the late 14th century. 187 Having passed with …
A History of the County of Chester
… 8 Of those excluded, the abbot's tenants outside the Northgate can be estimated at 35 (as in the 1390s), 9 the …