Search
A History of the County of Sussex
… were churchgoers, the men attending in the morning and the women in the evening. Communion was then held monthly, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by will proved 1868 gave c. £20 annually for 12-20 elderly women; 23 at the end of the century it was usually …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… bequeathed £1,000 to provide clothing for 20 poor Westbury women, and £1,000 to establish a school for boys and girls. … £30 and £40, and was spent on 9 sets of underclothing for women. 57 The origin of Henry Smith's charity is dealt with … to provide clothing for poor men over 40 years old and women over 30 in alternate years. In 1857, after the death of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1920's and in 1952 was employing an average of 120 men and women in the factory, and about 300 women outworkers. A. L. and W. L. Jefferies, who had both …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… wider responsibilities. In 1814 it arranged for four women to receive training as mid-wives. 45 In 1827 it …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… a kneeling woman; and in the foreground is the Virgin, two women and St. John. In the left light is the repentant thief …
Old and New London
… registered herself and her companions here as "Sanctuary women;" and how here, "in great penury, and forsaken of all … to the glory of God, for twelve poor men and poor women. The building was afterwards converted into lodgings …
Survey of London
… 174 until 1923 when Morley College for Working Men and Women was transferred there from the Old Vic Theatre (see p. …
Old and New London
… entertained here, on New Year's Day, 1236, 6,000 poor men, women, and children. It was here, in 1170, the young Prince … and the chief citizens, at the trial of 480 men and eleven women, with ropes about their necks, for being concerned in … three great bonfires, and great many gallants, men and women; and they laid hold of us, and would have us drink the …
Old and New London
… state, clad in the deepest mourning, and surrounded by her women, all as black and as dismal looking as herself. Here, …