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Old and New London
… and Charles II., was known as the Mulberry Garden, then a place of fashionable resort. It was so called from the fact … describe these gardens in their daythe former as "the best place about the towne for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at;" and the latter as "a silly place, with a wilderness somewhat pretty." The Mulberry …
Old and New London
… mixed up with fable. It owed its first beginning as a place of importance, no doubt, to its Abbey, or Minster, … that it was known to the Saxons as "Thorney," that is, the place of thorns. Thorney, it appears, was at that time an … London then was, in a certain terrible uncultivated place called 'Thorney,' from the thorns growing there." …
Old and New London
… was so great that the coach could not go forward, and the place was so narrow that all the halberdiers were either … and this morning retired;" and the next day, at the same place, the same bit of scandal, he tells us, is confirmed by … into Nottinghamshire, and consigned to their last resting-place in Hucknall Church, near his home at Newstead Abbey. …
Old and New London
… men's club as distinguished from a mechanic's institutea place of repose and recreation, opened every evening from six … which surrounded it, has now disappeared, and in its place has been formed the broad and open thoroughfare, … length, extending from the Broad Sanctuary to Shaftesbury Place, Pimlico; it is eighty feet wide, and the houses on …
Old and New London
… is constantly made in the comedies of the time as a place of assignation for married ladies with fashionable … of 'unfortunate' females, to commit suicide than any other place in London." St. James's Park must have been a rural and … as also so great a number of these pets lounging about the place, that Evelyn declares in his "Diary" that the whole …
Old and New London
… was intercepted, and his girdle and ring burned at this place before the people." These fields, according to Stow, in … most barbarous sport of bull-baiting occasionally took place here; and the three days' fair, held in honour of St. … time afterwards. Upon the spot now occupied by Artillery Place, the men of Westminster used to practise at the …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… Westmorland Westmorland Place name Date of inception of market The date of the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… of the family of Morteyn was sold to that of Hercy in this place, which descended, as in Grove may be seen, to sir John … and now seated at Holme, according to the descent in that place inserted, it moved and remains. That which Turold the … Normanvile, 16 E. 4. passed this with Gedling, as in that place is noted, to Robert Roos of Laxton, from which family …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… manor are held here, and adjourned to some more convenient place. Bartholemew Kemp, of Gissing, in the twenty-third of …