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History Theses 1901-1970
… 18001966. W. Liu. Reading M.Phil. 1966/7. Blackwood's and Africa. C.A. Marin. Edinburgh M.Litt. 1970. Palmerston's policy towards East and West Africa, 183065. R.J. Gavin. … Galadanci. Cambridge M.Litt. 1970. The history of the Suez Canal concession, 185466. M. Kassim. London M.A. 1924. …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… the court that the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew's had been under obligation to find a chaplain to sing mass daily in the chapel of Gray's Inn for the students and fellows at a salary of 7 13 s. 4 … St. Vedast, made to Stephen Vaughan, the ambassador to the regent of Flanders, and to his wife Margaret. 13 From this …
Old and New London
… the gas-works poured forth their mephitic vapours, and the canal gave forth its rheumatic dampness, extracting in return … Old St. Pancras Church, and also through that of St. Giles's parish which adjoins it, without any unavoidable … the churchyard of Old St. Pancras the line crosses the Regent's Canal, and then passes under the North London …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… writing of the area around Salisbury in the early 1790's, records much open field mixed with recent inclosure. 4 … dairying, and in sheep, a tendency that bears out Davis's complaints. 20 Some increase in turnip, potato, and … 1851, Knook 1871). General agricultural depression (Bishop's Cannings 1851), scarcity of agricultural employment …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Alban's, St - Aldborough Alban's (St.) ALBAN'S (ST.) a borough and market-town having … for the supply of the town, from the Grand Junction canal at Boxmoor, about six miles distant. The market is on …
Survey of London
… laid out by John Nash 124 to divide the buildings fronting Regent's Park from the commercial district to the east of it. The … railways and harbours in England. He projected a ship canal at Suez but was opposed by Palmerston. No. 43. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are employed. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 26. 6. 3.; patron, the Bishop of Salisbury; … of worship for Wesleyans. Near a farmhouse called Pierce's Lodge, are vestiges of a British encampment; and in the … which extend the waters of Morecambe bay. The Lancaster canal passes on the east. Besides the inclosed lands, the …
Old and New London
… CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the Old GateIts … OfficeOrigin of the Penny PostManleyBishopThe Duke of York's MonopolyMurray's PostDockwraAbsorption of the Penny Post by … Night," so many years the main attraction at the Coloseum, Regent's Park. After his voice failed him, he was enlisted in …
A History of the County of Northampton
… although a bridge carrying the path over the Grand Union Canal near Bozenham Mill still exists. The parish was linked … of the Mount is the parish church and Collier and Baker's plan of 1727 20 shows that most of the houses in the … with Manor Farm, the home of one of the Grafton Estate's two principal tenants in the parish. 24 The plan of 1727, …
A History of the County of Essex
… him by Beatrice wife of Aubrey de Vere in 1086. 74 On Odo's forfeiture the overlordship passed to Beatrice's descendants, later earls of Oxford, who were overlords … haps c. 1800. In 1675 there were two formal gardens and a canal to the south of the house, with a gatehouse to the …