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Survey of London
… Streete, w ch they say he will let, yt will be in every way fit garden and all'. 38 In December 1666, during a … the Military Ground to the waterhouse, and thence by way of the Military Street to the upper end of St. Martin's … to draw her within their den, each pulling a different way'. 77 William Hogarth, who was born in 1697, was …
Old and New London
… Edward IV. "The axe," says Fuller, in his usually pithy way, "then did, at one blow, cut off more learning than was …
Old and New London
… exhibitions to poor and struggling scholars, a very noble way of spending money. The most eminent of these were Walter … went across by ferry to a continuation of the military way towards Dover. It was a water wharf in the reigns of … as we find Johnson and Boswell once doing, on their way to Greenwich, in 1763. Dyers' Hall, College Street, was …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… though the ore is said to contain some silver. Nearly half-way to Llanidloes, and about a mile and a half from the road, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… ogee light, partly restored; the 13th-century N. door-way has been re-set and is now blocked; it has moulded jambs …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… to the original nave. There is a break in the masonry half way along the S. wall of the S. compartment. (A second … form. They consist of a central N.-S. well-marked hollow-way up to 1.5 m. deep, formerly the main street, edged on … m. high while the E. side has a shallow ditch or hollow-way, perhaps once a back lane, only 0.5 m. deep. At the N. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… road, probably on the route of the early medieval Old Way, 49 was turnpiked by the Bruton trust in 1810 when …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… sold to Peter Temple in 1689. 77 It descended in the same way as the manor of Bishopstrow until the present century. 78 … 79 The overlordship of this land passed in the same way as Ernulf's estate at Great Chalfield to the Earls of … family for several generations, descending in the same way as Appuldurcombe 6 to Sir Robert Worsley, who in 1690 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… church, at the foot of a steep hill, rises the small river Way, which runs through the parish, and falls into the sea at …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… for his many and beautiful designs in the Cabinet Way: consisting of Pictures, large Glass Sconces in carv'd …