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Magna Britannia
… it was still greater. According to the returns made to parliament at those periods, there were, in 1801, 2,104 … inhabitants, including seamen and carpenters. 6 Acts of parliament for improving the town and harbour of Whitehaven, … cures. Loweswater, though not enumerated in the return to parliament, among the townships of St. Bees, and sometimes …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The common fields of the parish were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1796 (NRO, Enclosure Map, 1797). No details of …
Survey of London
… support of the great petition which was being presented to Parliament, and his advice, repeated at Kennington, resulted …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… fields of the parish were finally enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1797. In 1600 most of the parish N. of the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… at Lewes. 5 A fine day but colder. It is expected that Parliament will be dissolved, because the Emperor of the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… most ugly termination to the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament; so bad that it spoils all the rest of the tower. … of the nation. Sir C. Barry wishes to extend the Houses of Parliament, but I think the outlay of money which it would … and Well's, cut up wood and drew some letters. No news. Parliament meets on Thursday. They are getting on with the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… The great Bell (big Ben by name) for the Houses of Parliament is now lying, so that it may be seen, in Palace … Monday. Disraeli and Gladstone have been very noisy in Parliament, the last few days, opposing the budget and other … considered but two steps open to them, to dissolve the Parliament or to resign. The former of these it is not …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… few days longer, we should doubtless have had some act of Parliament passed for pumping it and for settling the great …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… etc. Very windy. 2. Began a skeleton of the Perch etc. Parliament I believe opens today. By the by, I have quite … the auctioneer's twice, finished Wolf fish etc. Rainy. Parliament opened yesterday and not the day before, as I … and the resignation of the Derbyites or a dissolution of Parliament, either of which things we do not wish to come to …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… from what has been said in the papers and in the Houses of Parliament that the police used their staves rather too … as before. Nothing or next to nothing has been done in Parliament because it is near the end of the season, and the … as well as I can remember the events. On Tuesday the 14 th Parliament was prorogued till 23 of October next. The …