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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… DRIE (three) on account of its rising from three heads" Pennant. "Rivers arise, whether thou be the son Of utmost …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… and there are remains of late 16th-century work in the Pennant Almshouses at Hornchurch. Secular Buildings. The high …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… On each pinnacle-base of tower, with iron standard and pennant. Miscellanea: In tower, fragment of stone, shaped and …
Old and New London
… of Stamford, as the rate-books of St. Martin's attest. Pennant says, though erroneously, that its original name was … in which Monmouth livedand that this may have misled Pennant. The Duke of Monmouth lived in a large house with two … and his subsequent execution, are matters of history. Pennant mentions, as we have noticed before, a tradition to …
Survey of London
… 73a. This view of the house is amplified by the Crowle-Pennant drawing entitled 'Lord Bateman's House in Soho Square … (Plate 73c). Despite its obvious crudities, the Crowle-Pennant drawing appears to have been made from notes taken on … of Prints and Drawings, Crowle's extra-illustrated copy of Pennant, vol. IV, item 102. Wren Society, vol. XII, 1935, p. …
Old and New London
… designing such a palace as had not been seen in England." Pennant tells us that the architect employed by the Protector … the use of it. Such, at all events, was the opinion of Pennant. Stow tells us that the queen of James I. made this … in a handsome quarto form, is known as the "Archologia." Pennant writes, in 1806: "The Royal Society and the Society …
Old and New London
… a bear-fight, Be sure God His curse will upon you light." Pennant, who quotes these verses, seems to consider the last …
Old and New London
… stead? A common granary casement and a shapeless spire." Pennant describes the steeple of St. George's Church as "most …
Old and New London
… HOUSE. ( From a View by Hollar, 1660.) The antiquary Pennant, whilst pretending to do nothing of the kind, … made, it was reduced to twelve. One of the houses, says Pennant, but he gives no authority for the statement, bore … the continuation of the Watling Street road. "This," says Pennant, "is supposed to have been a Roman trajectus, and the …