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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Apr. 1841 ( ibid. f. 85; Lamb., Reg. Howley p. 693). Henry Pepys D.D. 1841-1860. Congé d' élire and letter missive for Pepys, bp. of Sodor and Man, pubd. 29 Apr. 1841 ( Lond. Gaz. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… For instance, when the Duke of Gloucester died in 1660, Pepys felt obliged to buy 'a pair of short black stockings', … which is now the mode of all the ladies in town' [Diaries (Pepys)]. !n 1751 Aris's Birmingham Gazette, and no doubt …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of mourners. It had, however, other uses; for example, Pepys wore one to warn others about jostling his arm where blood had been let that day [Diaries (Pepys)] while in 1743 some unfortunate advertised as lost 'A …
Old and New London
… Hill was seldom without the ornament of a gibbet. Pepys tells us in his "Diary," under date of April 11, 1661, …
Survey of London
… much as normal. 55 In 1666 Johnson's great friend, Samuel Pepys, in his role as a senior Clerk in the Navy Office, … capacity of any of the commercial yards on the Thames. 56 Pepys also estimated that there were 598 shipwrights, 244 … erected beside the gates of the new dock. In January 1661 Pepys 'went to blackwall and viewed the dock[yard] and the …
Old and New London
… title of a play brought out in the seventeenth century. In Pepys' "Diary," under date November 20, 1660, is this …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 8. yeares.' [to a grocer] [Diaries (Josselin)]. Samuel Pepys recording a riot in London in 1664, recorded that 'At … all for weavers that had green or blue aprons' [Diaries (Pepys)]. A GREEN APRON had similar connotations. However, not …
Records of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… it was rebuilt in 1635, and repewed in 1835. Samuel Pepys, secretary to the admiralty in the reigns of Charles …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… of Huntingdon. The church is the principal monument, and Pepys Farm (2), though of little structural interest, was the property and occasional residence of Samuel Pepys. Pauline Jackson, widow, is commemorated by a … with other fragments. ConditionGood. Secular b(2). Pepys Farm, house, on the S. side of the road, 400 yards N.E. …
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