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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… (53). "The Old Curiosity Shop," shop and house, No. 6, Portsmouth Street, on N. side of road, 20 yards S.E. of …
Old and New London
… victim to national resentment, in 1628, having perished at Portsmouth by the hand of the assassin Felton. In the next …
Old and New London
… the remains of old men-of-war, which were broken up in Portsmouth Dockyard, were employed as materials. It may be …
Old and New London
… day in 1854, en route from the Wellington Barracks to Portsmouth, to embark for the Black Sea. The Queen, …
Old and New London
… for cutting ships' blocks, used in the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth. In July, 1816, the body of Richard Brinsley …
Survey of London
… their identity practically certain. (i) The Duchess of Portsmouth's apartments are variously described as being ( a) … Gallery and the Matted Gallery were identical. Duchess of Portsmouth's Lodgings. Between October, 1670, and May, 1671, … written probably in 1678 is the statement: "The Duchess of Portsmouth [Louise had been created Duchess in 1673] has …
Survey of London
… it is the Whitehall of Lady Castlemaine, the Duchess of Portsmouth, "la Belle Stuart," and Nell Gwynne. This is not, … there, among others, of Lady Castlemaine, the Duchess of Portsmouth, the Duchesse Mazarin, Miss Stuart, and Winifred … 16845, the King had been supping with the Duchess of Portsmouth in her apartments at the end of the Stone Gallary. …
Old and New London
… which he professed to have obtained from the Duchess of Portsmouth, who, he said, "always asserted, on the authority … account," Wraxall adds, "as coming from the Duchess of Portsmouth, challenges great respect." By Lilly's Life it … of those from Africa at the rooms of the Duchess of Portsmouth, in Whitehall. It was at Whitehall, as Pepys tells …
Old and New London
… previously occupied by the apartments of the Duchess of Portsmouth, Louise Rene de Perrencourt, whose son, by Charles …
Old and New London
… could be sent, on fine days and in clear weather, to Portsmouth, and to one or two other stations, in an hour, or …