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A History of the County of Middlesex
… to existing centres and was slow, perhaps partly because of poor sewerage, 63 until the 1860s. Country houses were … had been bounded on three sides in 1855 by the land of John Holland, which adjoined the Three Compasses inn. 16 In … and laid out in conjunction with James Edmondson & Son of Highbury as the Station estate. 18 The frontage became …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a line running west from the Gatehouse a few yards south of the present Hampstead Lane. 66 To the north and east lay … in Highgate in 1467. 4 Others with land there by 1480 were Richard Rawson, 5 alderman and master of the Mercers' Company … (Herts.) after Wyatt's rebellion in 1554. 32 Sir Thomas's son Sir William Cornwallis (d. ?1631) 33 bought a house and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… its low death-rate, lies between 3 and 6½ miles north-west of London. Longer from east to west than from north to south, … the future lords appellant assembled forces to overawe Richard II 22 and that in 1441 Roger Bolingbroke and Thomas … residents not mentioned elsewhere in this article included John Lightfoot (d. 1675), biblical critic and Hebraist. 25 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Manorial government. In 1294 the bishop of London claimed to have possessed in Hornsey as member of … the second vestry clerk since 1788, was succeeded by his son, who died in 1889. Only from 1889 did the vestry clerk … by two widows 95 but in 1623 the homage presented that John Richardson had no licence to devise his cottage on the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hornsey, including Highgate Manors MANORS. The manor of HARRINGAY or HORNSEY was said in 1294 to have been held by … in 1293 from Thomas of Banbury and Joan his wife by Richard de Gravesend, bishop 1280-1307, and which descended … for lives. By will dated 1612 he devised it to his second son Stephen, later Sir Stephen, Scott (d. 1658), 39 on the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Highgate Other estates OTHER ESTATES. Among the estates of Simon Francis (d. 1357), merchant of London, was land at … 33 in 1484 other copyhold from the guardian of Thomas, son of John Bury, a London tailor; 34 in 1486 more copyhold of Topsfield from Richard Spencer and Isabel his wife; 35 in 1487 a freehold …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY. Highgate, the home of Parliamentarians 96 and just beyond the limits imposed by the Five Mile Act, was a natural resort for dissenters. John Storer, formerly lecturer at Stowmarket (Suff.), was … congregation in Southwood Lane 5 claimed descent from that of 1662, although the next known minister, Thomas Sleigh, was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… near by in 1544, 74 but until the late 19th century much of the parish depended on wells bored through the thick … 1828 a public meeting decided on the immediate provision of a public well and pump. The vestry's contribution was … A site in Duke's Avenue was given in 1899 by Edmondson & Son for a library but in 1910 reverted to the donor; a branch …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1585. 68 Recusant gentry included Francis Yates of Highgate in 1587, and, from Hornsey, George Mackworth in … 1589, 69 Mary Jerningham in 1593-4, 70 and Catherine, wife of Anthony Kitchen, in 1594. 71 The foremost was Sir John Arundell (d. 1591), of Lanherne (Cornw.), confined for …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 55 Evidence for Highgate's growth as a separate place of resort lies in a rhyme about morris dancing on the green … invention of an inn-keeper. 83 It was known to the poet Richard Brathwaite in 1638, 84 derided in 1681, 85 deplored … Times, 1 July 1863. See p. 111. Life of Geo. Crabbe by his son (1932 edn.), 51. Except where otherwise stated, the rest …