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Old and New London
… of Oliver CromwellThe Ultimate Fate of Cromwell's BodyThe Exhumation discussedCurious Record in an Old Parish … Life under the StuartsCock-fightingDefoe's AccountIts Prevalence in England. In the "New View of … Duchess of Marlborough) in her hood and mantle, descended White Hall Stairs and took her pleasure in her barge on the …
Old and New London
… hortos." Juvenal. The Privy Gardens and King Charles's curious Sun-dialsName changed to Whitehall GardensLady Hervey and Sir Thomas RobinsonSir Robert Peel's HousePembroke House and Gwydyr HouseThe Local Government … the way from Somerset House to Charing Cross we pass the 'White Hart,' the 'Red Lion,' the 'Mairmade,' the 'iii Tuns,' …
Old and New London
… banqueting-house, and other apartments, as "Henry VIII.'s Gallery," the "Boarded Gallery," the "Matted Gallery," the … pleasant lodgings, buildings, and mansions for his grace's singular pleasure, comfort, and commodity, to the honour of … and one large dried cod; twelve red herrings and twelve white herrings, and four half-quartern loaves. Each person …
Old and New London
… grac'd, But by his death imperfect and defac'd." Storer's Metrical History of Wolsey. Wallingford HousePope's Lines on the Death-bed Scene of Villiers, Duke of … the committee-room there is a handsome fireplace of carved white marble, brought from the old East India House; and on …
Magna Britannia
… Whitehaven, called in ancient records Whyttothaven ( i. e. White-toft-haven), which had belonged to the priory of St. Bees, was purchased in his father's life-time by Sir Christopher Lowther, second son of Sir … 1807 created Earl of Lonsdale. The Castle 2, his Lordship's seat at Whitehaven, where he occasionally resides, is a …
Survey of London
… Whitfield Street stood Fitzroy Chapel, later St. Saviour's Church, which is separately noticed below (p. 48). North of … somewhat altered, the brickwork of the house being painted white. No. 143 has been modernized, the house being rendered … Howland Street most of the area was taken up by Whitefield's Chapel and Burial Ground (see p. 67), and a new school …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… great resort. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 12. 11. 3., and in the patronage of the Dean and … the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 7. 10. 10.; net income, 302; patron, the Bishop of … to have been celebrated, under the name Drv Wen, or the White Town, by Llywarch Hen, a noble British bard, who …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… just W. of the villa, is on a possible line of the White Way from Corinium; coffin burials to the S. in Sandywell Park 1 were close to this line. Monuments in … S.W. to an intersection with the possible line of the White Way at about SP 017191 (see discussion on Roman roads, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… NM Records; OS Record Cards) c(1) Enclosure (SP 689431), S. of the village, within the formerly wooded area of the … corners and a small secondary enclosure attached at its S.W. corner. The feature still survived as an earthwork at … a grid of squares outlined in red with a square of white at each intersection. This building lay to the W. of a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Stockton, N. E. division of Stockton ward, S. division of the county of Durham, 5 miles (N. W. by W.) … and Christ's Colleges. The present warden is Mr. John White, nephew of Gilbert White, the historian of Selborne, Hampshire. Whixoe, county …