Search
Survey of London
… Muscovy Court II.MUSCOVY COURT. SITE OF MUSCOVY (SIR JOHN ALLEYN'S) HOUSE Muscovy Court, which lay in the north-west angle of Tower Hill, covered the site of a short lane which formed … Religious Houses, etc.", a copy of which is at University College, London University. Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 2392. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… preparations; yet there are numerous instances on record of the deleterious effects of some species of these fungi, … The spate of patents reflects the importance of muslin to British manufacture. The first, in 1691 related to the use of … TANJEB, TERRINDAM Found described as ALLIBALLY, BOOK, BRITISH, CALICO, CAMBRIC, CHECK, clear, COARSE, DYED, ELL …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Musselburgh - Muthill Musselburgh MUSSELBURGH, a burgh of regality, in the parish of Inveresk, county of Edinburgh, 6 miles (E.) from … for the home market, and principally for the use of the British navy. The manufacture of haircloth was introduced in …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Mutford. Villages, like kingdoms, have their periods of prosperity and decay; and this now obscure parish was of … de Hengrave by the society of Gonville Hall, now Caius College, in Cambridge. Its revenues were appropriated to that … rents paid in money to the Master and Fellows of Caius College, is the following item. "The tythes of Mutford and …
Survey of London
… acquired its name from Queen Annes husband, Prince George of Denmark, who hunted there. 42 No example of the name Herne … These three houses, which are now occupied by Kings College Hospital, are important examples of late 18th century … 179698 as Honorary Commander of the Duff, the first British Missionary Ship of modern times. Nearby is a sundial …
Survey of London
… Hill and Herne Hill This district probably formed part of the Manor of Milkwell, a relatively small Manor which lay … pavilions by five-storey lavatory blocks. St. Gabriel's College, Cormont Road The foundation stone of St. Gabriels Church Training College for women teachers was laid by Lady Cranborne, later …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… London, cm (1794). In July 1794 took out insurance cover of 400 on his house, its contents and stock in a shop. [GL, … new Act of Parliament would impose 20 fines to protect the British textile industries. In partnership with a John Hill … her late husband's debtors to pay her, or Maycock, Jesus College Lane. [Poll bk; Jackson's Oxford Journal, 21 April …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1500-1714 Nabbes-Nykke Nabbes-Nykke Nabbes, Thomas of co. Worcester, pleb. Exeter Coll., matric. 3 May, 1621, … gave his lands in South Petherton, Somerset, to his college. See Gutch, i. 264 Napper, Edward of Oxon, gent. … at Cambridge 1663, knighted 4 July, 1641, hon. fellow college of physicians 1664, student of Gray's Inn 1622, "a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… N Naburn NABURN, a parochial chapelry, in the wapentake of Ouse and Derwent, union and E. riding of York, 4 miles … its modern appellation is probably a compound of the British term Nant, "a brook or marsh," and the Saxon Vic, by … patrons and impropriators, the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. The great tithes have been commuted for 30; and the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Nailsworth in 1828, and in 1838 it was reconstituted as a British school in a new building at the entrance of Northfields Road opposite the Lower Forestgreen chapel. 96 At the outset, however, the British school suffered from lack of funds and was poorly …