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Survey of London
… WALK. Ground landlord, etc. Nos. 2 and 3 are the property of W. Brindley, Esq., and are tenanted respectively by … Roberts. General description. The general appearance of these three houses, linking them definitely with old … the scene of one of Rowlandson's sketches, now in the British Museum. It was converted into a brewery later on, and …
Survey of London
… Garden XII.THE PHYSIC GARDEN. (Formerly the Botanic Garden of the Apothecaries' Company.) The story of this famous … taken by the Royal Society, or, on their refusal, by the College of Physicians, on the same terms. In this year (1722) … of London, the Society of Apothecaries, and the Royal College of Physicians, in turns." The work of this new …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Paragon - Pawpaw Paragon [parragon] A TEXTILE; a kind of double CAMLET; a STUFF used for CLOTHING and FURNISHINGs … more attractive to the consumer. An alternative meaning of the term is suggested in one entry found in a probate … ready for use. The result, he added, was not harmful to health, but it did tend 'to deteriorate the quality and …
Survey of London
… Paris Garden Manor CHAPTER 18: PARIS GARDEN MANOR The manor of Paris Garden, which is roughly coincident with the parish … Thomas Cure was the son of the Thomas Cure who founded the College Almshouses (see p. 83). In May, 1589, he, and his … Knights Templars and the Knights Hospitallers now in the British Museum, there is a copy of a confirmation by Henry II …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… Parish Church of Holy Trinity Goodramgate Parish Church of Holy Trinity Goodramgate (2) Parish Church of Holy … wall, (3) the Rev. James Dallin, M.A., of Magdalen ( sic) College, Cambridge, 1838, similar to (2), also by Fisher; (4) …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… Parish Church of St. Denys Parish Church of St. Denys (6) Parish Church of St. Denys (Plate 11; Fig. … readings in Henry Keep, Monumenta Eboracensia, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 0.4.33, p. 138, and Bodleian, MS. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… Parish Church of St. Michael Spurriergate Parish Church of St. Michael Spurriergate (13) Parish Church of St. … and in E. window of chancel in 1680 (Henry Keep, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 0.4.33); in head of second light, …
Survey of London
… Parish church of St. Paul II.THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. PAUL 1 It is believed that until the 17th century the … interr'd the body of JAMES IMPEY, M.A. of Christ's Church College, Oxford son of ELIJAH IMPEY Esq r of this hamlet He …
A History of the County of Essex
… GOVERNMENT. 92 Except for some 17th-century vestry minutes of All Saints' and St. Leonard's parishes, surviving parish records consist of 18th- and 19th-century vestry and select vestry minutes, … a chaplain, and, from 1842, a workhouse medical officer of health. Numbers of workhouse inmates increased in 1837 to 133 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… POOR-RELIEF PARISH GOVERNMENT. The city parishes as units of government were less self-sufficient than their rural … earl of Huntingdon, granted to the city the dissolved college of St. Mary as a hospital to house and educate 10 … transferred, as Cowley Road hospital, to the Ministry of Health in 1946. 29 It was intended in 1771 that poor-relief …