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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in PEWTER vats or kettles in a mixture of AQUA FORTIS and powdered PEWTER. The effect was to turn what otherwise … was used to dye various TEXTILEs, but particularly TAMMY and SERGE. Occurrences in the Dictionary Archive confirm his … as indicated by the advertisement for 'Bowling green and skittle boards' [Tradecards (1771)]. It was possibly …
Survey of London
… Bourdon Street and Grosvenor Hill Area CHAPTER III Bourdon Street and Grosvenor Hill Area This former mews area in the … large parcel of ground fronting north on Grosvenor Street and west on Davies Street which was taken under a building …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… The village of Bourn is about 8 m. W.S.W. of Cambridge and about 1 m. to the E. of Ermine Street. The name brunnr is … The place was a thriving one at the Norman conquest and became the seat of the barony of Picot of Cambridge, … followers of Simon de Montfort in 1266 when the castle and the prior of Barnwell's manor (Monument (8)) were burnt. …
Survey of London
… Bow Street and Russell Street Area Bow Street CHAPTER VIII - Bow Street and Russell Street Area Bow Street Plates 52a, 52c, 54b Few … of a through-route from Waterloo Bridge to St. Giles's and Bloomsbury, and the public or semipublic nature of the …
Survey of London
… Bow Street and Russell Street Area Russell Street Russell Street The … Covent Garden, was built under leases granted in 1631 and 1632, which are tabulated on pages 3089. It was fully … view of the church directly opposite across the Piazza, and afforded access to the latter from Drury Lane via the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the late Sir Francis Blake, Bart. The village is long and scattered. A sepulchral urn was turned up by the plough, several years since, at Bowesden-Hollins; and in the year 1800, some workmen, in levelling a barrow in … of Clitheroe, W. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York; containing 181 inhabitants. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… BOWOOD Bowood liberty consisted of land imparked c. 1618 and formerly part of Chippenham forest. 88 In 1709 the … the edge of the park called Mannings Hill, Cuff's Corner, and Buck Hill, and part of the settlement called Red Hill; the settlements …
A History of the County of Essex
… was split into moieties held by the lords of Boxted Hall and Rivers Hall respectively. Hugh of Boxted gave his share … the church to St. John's abbey, Colchester, between 1163 and 1181, and Robert of Horkesley and Beatrice his wife gave theirs to …
A History of the County of Essex
… cultivation was probably concentrated in the north-west and north-east of the parish where the Boxted Hall and Rivers Hall demesnes later lay. 97 Boxted Hall's woodland … probably further south next to Cestrewald. Boxted's large and increasing number of bordarii, as well as its 38 goats, …
A History of the County of Essex
… schools for a total of 45 children; in 1839 between 35 and 40 children were in dame schools, and there were also two adult schools held once a week. 60 … listed in 1848; of those, three were last recorded in 1863 and one, owned by Robert Malyn on Straight Road, survived as …