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Old and New London
… and so to the Cherry Garden, and thence by water, singing finely, to the bridge, and there landed." Charles …
Old and New London
… the EvangelistGoat's YardKeach's Meeting-houseAbsence of Singing in Dissenting Meeting-houses two Centuries agoQueen … patiently listening, asked her whether she understood singing. "No," she replied. "What! can't you sing?" She … feelings by telling her that people who did not understand singing were the last who ought to complain; but he meekly …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… 35. land tax) went to a Berrick Salome schoolmistress who taught two children free, 11 and another schoolmistress was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… £350 to pay for poor children of Berwick Bassett to be taught. 92 In 1818 the charity school had 10 pupils; 93 in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Latin, Gaelic, and the ordinary branches of education are taught, and the master has a salary of 30, with about 13. 10. … The usual number of scholars is 120, of whom 20 are taught gratuitously, their fees being paid from the same … school, in which the usual branches of education are taught, and the master of which has the maximum salary, with …
Old and New London
… Sunday is a day much devoted to pet pigeons and to bird-singing clubs; prizes are given to such as excel in note, and …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was founded for 30 girls. By c. 1800 the two schools taught c. 130 children. Sunday schools, which taught reading and sometimes writing, were associated with … charity school, the workhouse, where a pauper schoolmaster taught the children to read but the education was 'very bad', …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Merceron's years, with public protests and the singing of the Red Flag. 44 There was more controversy over …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… mentioned aviaries c. 1841 and the matches between singing birds in the taverns around Hare Street c. 1874. 61 … were built on roofs to house racing pigeons. 62 Bird-singing and racing were among the activities centred on … by recreation and fraternal rituals like linking hands and singing, 70 and the rector's complaint in 1816 71 against the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… may have taken place between 1671 when Thomas Walton, who taught at Bishop's Hall in 1673, was assessed for 10 hearths …