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Old and New London
… sufficient to have conquered the Spanish West Indies." Pennant remarks it as a singular occurrence that this lane, …
Old and New London
… London) JACOB TONSON. ( See page 79.) "This place," says Pennant, "was one of the scenes of Lord Seymour's indecent … to be taken down. The Duke, as we are informed by Pennant, had presented his valuable library to the society. … of the bath was evidently unknown to Stow, Maitland, Pennant, and Malcolm, from the absence of any mention of it …
Old and New London
… its narrowness and its steep descent. Near this spot, Pennant tells us, the former Earls of Rutland had "a house at … most interesting of the old Strand palaces. According to Pennant, its original founder was Anthony de Beck, Patriarch … is commemorated by Horace Walpole with his usual piquancy. Pennant speaks of her as "a female suspected to have been his …
Survey of London
… 3495 (130); ibid., Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Crowle's Pennant, vol. 6. p. 33. Cited in lease of 1703, E/BER, Drury …
Old and New London
… halfpenny. On the river side, below St. Katherine's, says Pennant, on we hardly know what authority, stood, in the … at one time alone, and sent over to Amsterdam probably, as Pennant thinks, for the use of our thirsty army in the Low …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Edwards's Gleanings, Willoughby's Ornithology; in Pennant's British Zoology, vol. i. p. 257; and in the …
Old and New London
… Lanesborough's house was beyond the turnpike gate, and Pennant says it was his lordship's "country house." In 1733, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… rock. This fortification, which is called Tebeni, Mr. Pennant conjectures to have been the strong castle of Bere, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… there' in 1569; Robert Nowell's Money (ed. Grosart), 384. Pennant's MS. Acct. Bk. at Chester Dioc. Reg. Visit. Returns; …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… He occurs similarly as curate again in Sept. 1575; Pennant's MS. Acct. Bk. He was buried 14 May 1583; his …
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