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Survey of London
… three separate curved balconies, whereas No. 50 has one long balcony with cast-iron panels. Two houses farther north …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… separate the coarser TOW or HARDS from the finer, and the long, more desirable fibres from the short. Much of the work … hards were combed out from the better material such as LONG FLAX. OED earliest date of use: c1440 Found in units of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and a fair, granted in the 28th of Henry III., have been long discontinued. The living is a discharged vicarage, …
Calendar of Documents Preserved in France
… a curtilage at Newbury ( Niweberiam), on the terms that so long as he lived a clerk, he should enjoy that endowment, and … calvus) count of Flanders took to wife from England, gave long since, as her own inheritance for the weal of her soul … of the count her lord and her sons Ernulph and Adelulf, long since. He also grants to them the lands belonging to ( …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a family called a Fowle lived in the 1540s. 8 The house, a long range of one storey and attics with an east cross wing … 40 a. at Mousell, included in the Grange estate under the long lease of 1591; from 1772 the Mousell land was claimed by … Thomas Crawley-Boevey in 1727. It evidently ceased to work long before 1847 when its site could not be identified. 9 In …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… and a church, and one mill 12d. Pasture wood one leu. long, and half one broad. In the Confessours time it was 8l. …
A Dictionary of London
… probably belonging to the Meneters or Mintors, and it has long been the resort of well-known Bankers, and … 1746). In the I 17th and 18th centuries this was a long court extending south to Fleet Street, but when the …
Old and New London
… ghost they say still haunts Peel Castle. And now, in the long panorama of years, there rises in Fleet Street a clash … at their height. In 1702 a model of Amsterdam, thirty feet long by twenty feet wide, which had taken twelve years in … a great Lincolnshire ox, nineteen hands high, four yards long, as lately shown at Cambridge, was on view 'at the …
Old and New London
… objection to treat political subjects was overcome, that, long after, he began to illustrate Punch's pages regularly. … are: "Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a booksellers' hack; He led such a miserable life in … were "The Ship of Fools," that great satire that was so long popular in England; Mandeville's lying "Travels;" "La …
Old and New London
… their whips and whistled to their horses up and down the long disused lane. Half-way up on the east side of Chancery … by the old dramatists. His hair is short, his beard long, and he wears a long furred robe. Before him kneels a man in armour, possibly …