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Old and New London
… made in every suburb of London to give way to the modern gin-palace with its flaring gas and its other attractions. … O! Would lounge at the 'Adam and Eve,' And call for his gin and tobacco." We learn something of the rural appearance … tendency are to be found in his "Sunday in London," "The Gin Juggernaut," "The Gin Trap," and more especially in his …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… 2 marks of silver. 13 Lichfield, 20th October, 1221. Roger Gin and Alice his wife Agnes Bagot of Brumschulf (Bramshall). …
Old and New London
… active in introducing a Bill for increasing the duty on gin, in consequence of which he became so odious to the mob … a riot in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Hogarth, who painted his "Gin Lane" to express his alarm and disgust at the growing …
Old and New London
… for fees crusts of bread, bits of bacon, glasses of gin, and a little copper." Levett, however, was neither a …
Old and New London
… stout and 'goes' of Cork and 'rack,' by which is meant gin; and, in the winter-time, of Irish stew and rump-steak …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… bucket or basket using a hand-operated windlass or a horse gin (or whim). 77 By the 1770s two or three crank-driven … known in 1754 as Water Wheel Engine 79 and later as Oiling Gin. A steam engine was set up there, perhaps as early as …
A History of the County of Northampton
… were a dairy, a churn room and a room containing a horse-gin to work the churn. Upstairs the main range contained four …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in vessels containing less than 60 GALLON [Acts (1765)]. GIN was a similar, but not identical, drink to geneva though … was reserved for the foreign imported product, and 'gin' for the British, but this distinction was not invariably …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… Jno. Hen. Gilbert, Joan Giles, Rich. Gill, Geo. Jno. Gin, Rich. Gipp, Thos. Gladman, Rich., payment to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Dorset, deer in Gilpin, Geo. John, letter of Gilsons, John Gin Street, London Ginger Girdlers' Company, London Gisleham, …