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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… situated in a retired part of the parish. Many of the women and children are employed in the straw-plat … The portreeve's almshouses, in Back-street, are for four women, each of whom receives a small allowance. The poor-law …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Mrs. Catherine Vaughan founded a house for six poor aged women at Eidda. Yspytty-Ystrad-Meuric YSPYTTY-YSTRAD-MEURIC, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 10 woodland, and 177 common, roads, and waste. Many of the women and children are employed in lace-making. The living is … with instructions to give no quarter, but to put men, women, and children indiscriminately to the sword. Arms. … alderman, who assigned to it 5 per annum each for ten aged women, and twenty nobles to a chaplain; the buildings consist …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… 1192 may have been graves. 11 There was also a prison for women, apparently with a chapel above it, built by John Piper … columns for the warders, debtors, and visitors; women sat in the centre with the felons and convicts around … Originally the ground floor was divided into cells for women felons and the upper floor into more comfortable rooms …
Survey of London
… for a hospital for the Relief of those Child-bearing Women who are the Wives of poor Industrious Tradesmen or …