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Old and New London
… Palace is far from being so magnificent as Versailles is, or the Tuilleries once were, yet it has about it an air of … being occupied by the Earl of Arlington, whose name is, or ought to be, indissolubly linked with it, on one account … Buckingham," writes Horace Walpole, "is either dead or dying. She sent for Mr. Anstes, and settled the ceremonial …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1d ½' [Inventories (1700)]. They were most probably bands or straps to go round a wheel; for example as the driving … this, as the FRAME SAW was also called a framing saw. One or two workers in WOOD had both. For example, one had '2 - 7 … between two persons to Saw such great pieces of timber or other Stuff that the Hand Saw will not easily reach …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Wheatenhurst or Whitminster Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER … in 1721 to Nathaniel Cambridge. 13 Cambridge died in 1725 or 1726, leaving a young son, the poet Richard Owen … Owen Cambridge died in 1847 without surviving children or nephews or nieces; he devised the property to George …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… first element in the name may be an allusion to the wells or springs that occur at the site. 2 A now deserted hamlet … to one in early times. 7 Langwith was a forest hay or clearing in the 13th century, and its assarts and commons … which may have been carried out in the late Dark Ages or following William I's harrying of 1069-70. The village as …
Survey of London
… (see Plate 5). Plans of the Palace. There are three plans (or rather three versions of the same original survey) of … taken about the latter end of King Charles the II ds Reign or about 1680." It does not show the whole of the Palace, … of Antiquaries is another MS. plan entitled "A Survey or Ground-Plot of His Majestyes Pallace of White-hall. …
Survey of London
… 152930, Thomas Alvarde was appointed keeper of "our place or messuage called York Place." The Privy Purse Expenses show … Brightman mentioned above, consisting of the "Berehouse [or Brewhouse] buylded at Endiff." It obviously lay behind The … are given in any of the numerous leases of this property or in the sale by Brightman to Henry VIII. 19 (vii) South of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… equal. It stands for the present and future ages to admire or envy. The ornament under the grand entrance of the … unfortunately; one which took place at Rhyl (Wales) a day or two back, in which a lifeboat and all hands were lost, was … true that a Margate lugger foundered with all hands (12 or 13) trying to assist the same ship. Several of those in …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… was of a young lady poisoning her young man. But after 7 or 8 days' investigation, the jury have acquitted Miss … spent about 760, but out of the admitted sum h/e cannot or says it is impossible to account for many large sums being … the other day, the parliamentary ran into the express, or vice versa, no one killed but plenty damaged. On Saturday …