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Old and New London
… The son of a knight, and brought up at Oxford, Anthony Wood describes the gallant and hopeful lad at sixteen, when … loyalty. "Having consumed all his estate," says Anthony Wood, "he grew very melancholy, which at length brought him …
Old and New London
… Pickett Place pelted the police with stones and pieces of wood, broken from the scaffolding of the Law Institute, then … "The Vicar of Wakefield," which he had begun at Canonbury Tower. We like to think that, seated at the "Cheese," he … with the smaller industries of Scawper & Tinttool, wood-engravers; and Treacle, Gluepot, & Lampblack, …
Old and New London
… seen going into Leach's house. Wilkes had been sent to the Tower for the No. 45. After much litigation, he obtained a … purposes of those bitter days. Latterly Hook let Alderman Wood alone, and set all his staff on Hume, the great …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… or the N. arcade altered and the North Vestry and West Tower added; the N. aisle was re-built at the same time. The … orders with a moulded label and mask-stops. The West Tower (8 ft. square) is of c. 1300 and of three stages … ornament, at the base of the spire. The two-centred tower-arch is of three chamfered orders with a moulded label, …
A Dictionary of London
… etc. Flying Horse Court North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype, ed. 1720-Elmes, … now occupied by warehouses. Flying Horse Court East out of Wood Street, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Strype, ed. 1720 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… 40,000 ounces of fine silver were extracted. In 1824, a tower, 140 feet high and 42 feet in diameter, was added, for … of a nave, two aisles, a clerestory, and a handsome tower and spire forty-five feet high. It contains nearly 700 … hundred of Maelor, on the border of Shropshire, and Threap Wood, an extra-parochial waste, also in the hundred of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… elevated site at the eastern extremity of the village; the tower, though not lofty, is handsome, having an embattled … The church is an ancient stone edifice with a handsome tower, and is said to have been built in 1051; the chancel … 564. The church is a substantial edifice with a very lofty tower, and is situated on a high hill, forming a conspicuous …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… College, London. The Church at Flixton comprises a square tower, a nave with a north aisle, and a ruinated chancel. The tower is, by far, the most ancient portion of the edifice, … especial attention. More beautiful specimens of the carved wood-work with which our ancient churches were furnished in …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… 10 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 100 acres of heath and briery, 40 acres of marsh, 60 of …
Alumni Oxonienses
… matric. 9 March, 1637-8, aged 17; B.A. 9 Dec., 1641, of Wood, Devon, bart., so created 29 Jan. 1666-7; buried 14 … See Foster's Index Eccl.; erroneously identified by Wood as John Fountaine, serjeant-at-law, etc. See Fasti, i. … Gray's Inn Reg. Frethorne, Christopher s. John, of Tower Street, London, gent. St. John's Coll., matric. 27 …