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Old and New London
… the stiffened body up the lane and placed it bolt upright, near a dim oil lamp, at a neighbour's door. There the … in the law, at his house at the upper end of Bell Yard, near unto Lincoln's Inn." In March, 1736, he writes of "that …
Old and New London
… court were obliged to be tried in the city of Westminster, near the Palace, and it was a melancholy sight (except to … Waller's brother-in-law, a gentleman living in Holborn, near the end of Fetter Lane, and a secretary to the … at the same time or later, called the "Lock and Key," near Crane Court, at which place his son, a great speculator …
Old and New London
… author of 'The Pilgrim's Progress.'. . . . "Of all persons near our own time, Garrick's name was received with the … Underhill, and Sandford affected this neighbourhood, to be near the theatres. Lady Davenant here presided over the … Mr. Goslin's house, at the sign of the 'Blew Boar's Head,' near Water Lane, in Fleet Street, breaking the windows …
Old and New London
… above us, and 'Instituted 1756' on another signboard near. Dingy portraits of departed Grands and Deputies … But we sadly underrated the capacity of the orators near us. The sound of My Grand's last sentence had not died … was taught plain work, and remained with her until she was near twenty years of age; that she slept with her, and found …
Old and New London
… honoured him followed his body to its grave in the Abbey, near the feet of Shakespeare and by the side of Garrick. The … the Reform Bill) member for Oldham. He died at his house near Farnham, in 1835. Cobbett was an egotist, it must be … struggle, pain, and difficulty. In this gloomy side square near Fleet Street, he achieved many results and abandoned …
Old and New London
… electrical experiments on fourteen miles of wires near Shooter's Hill, 1745; ventilation, apropos of gaol …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… way passes through the southern part of the Fleam Dyke, near the boundary between Fulbourn and Great Wilbraham …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… of two stone coffins with shaped heads; at W. end, near gatecoped slab with raised cross, 13th-century, broken. … stone, with chamfered angles and a broken octagonal shaft; near by lies a moulded capital probably belonging to the …
A Dictionary of London
… A tenement called "le Cardenaleshat" and "le Flourdelys" near tenements in parishes of St. Vedast and St. Matthew in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… was to be held at Morva Rhianedd, on the banks of the Dee, near the site of the present town of Flint, in which the … of whom saved themselves by the swiftness of their horses. Near the battle field are the remains of an ancient mound or … a party of his troops had been defeated at Coed-Eulo, near Hawarden, this monarch advanced at the head of his army …