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A History of the County of Sussex
… east from it and from these other roads branch off in four or five different directions. Few of the ancient buildings … and facing north-west is a 17th-century house 3 (now two or three tenements) with the lower story of flint and brick … in 1656 Richard Brinley and Katherine conveyed a moiety to Laurence and Robert Brinley. Two years later William and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… owned mills at Hawkeridge and Chalford. 84 Angel Mill, or its site at the junction of Church and Maristow Streets, … the manor of Westbury Mauduits, 4 to the clothier Thomas Lawrence, or Saunders, 5 who died seised of it in 1602. 6 His son …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Westerton, about mile north-east of the church, are two or three ancient buildings. A farmhouse, now tenements, at … Bergavenny. He died in 1324, seised of this manor, his son Lawrence being then 6 years old. 13 In 1328, however, Edward … manors, including Westhampnett, had permission to sue Laurence de Hastings for disseisin, although he was under age …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… S.E. corner, and there are remains of the former feed-pipe or overflow in the middle of the S. end. The date of this … but, on the other hand, they do not resemble in form or texture the normal bricks of the 17th century, which seems … voluted pediment, shield-of-arms; on S.W. respond, (3) to Laurence Womack, 1685, Bishop of St. Davids, and Anne, his …
Old and New London
… Chapel of St. PaulA Punning EpitaphSt. Edward's Chapel, or Chapel of the KingsChantry of Henry V.Tomb of Edward … is separated from the south transept and the ambulatory, or chancel aisle, simply by a screen of monuments and their … the catalogue of saints, and issued his bull to the Abbot Laurence and Convent of Westminster, enjoining "that his body …
Old and New London
… than state here that the "religious life," in some shape or other, dates from the first century of the Christian … namely, Vitalis, who died in 1082; Gilbert Crispin (1114); Lawrence, said to have been the first who obtained from the … for its quaintness, and inscribed to the memory of William Laurence, in these lines "With diligence and truth most …
Old and New London
… physicians, until it has passed into a proverb. "Victory, or Westminster Abbey!" Nelson is reported to have exclaimed, … Sir Eyre Coote, Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood, General Lawrence, and others in both branches of the service. "The … House, the Jerusalem Chamber, the cloisters, and one or two fragments of buildings on the southern side, the Abbey …
Survey of London
… on the north side east of Narrow Wall, which were sold or let on building leases. A plan made in 1785, by Thomas … Road, No. 102 (later No. 266) being used as a gallery or showrooms for products of Coade's Artificial Stone … 166 In 1831 the house was occupied by Thomas Barton Lawrence, a malleable zinc manufacturer. 165 It was pulled …
Old and New London
… and whether that righteous doom shall be to life or death, I shall repose myself, full of gratitude and … and wine were distributed in the Court. After two hours or more, the lords returned, and the Lord Treasurer, in the … I shall never meet again in the same place." The notorious Lawrence Shirley, Earl Ferrers, was arraigned here, in 1760, …
Old and New London
… Palace is far from being so magnificent as Versailles is, or the Tuilleries once were, yet it has about it an air of … Families, by Vandyck, Lely, Kneller, Gainsborough, Copley, Lawrence, &c. The Yellow Drawing-room is generally considered … of former members of the royal family, and Sir Thomas Lawrence's whole-length portrait of George IV. in his …