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Survey of London
… up to 1814 'Everything north of Penton Street was true country, with dairy farms and a few single houses or cottages … the aid of persons living in different parts of the country', aroused hostility to his plans among respectable …
Old and New London
… the close of 1762, removed to 'Merry Islington,' then a country village, though now swallowed up in omnivorous … what they were. The ball-room gentlemen then went through country dances with their hats on and their coats off. Hats … a clause rendering separate confinement legal in this country. A model prison on this plan was resolved upon. Major …
Survey of London
… Pentonville was in the same position as any of the country villages swallowed up by London in the nineteenth and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… on an eminence commanding a good view over the adjacent country. Pickhill PICKHILL, a township, in the union of … from Hay to Builth passes through it, and the surrounding country is fertile and pleasing. Here was formerly a chapel …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6599). Bokerley Dyke lies across a tract of open Chalk country, furrowed by dry valleys, between the upper reaches …
Survey of London
… classes. Both men had left Berlin to fight for their country in 181315, before separately arousing official … in it a certain dramatic appeal to public opinion in this country and in mine'. 56 300. Unveiling of London County … Booth survey notebooks, B353, p.179 Census: DSR: POD Country Life, 28 Jan 1939, p.93 Thames Water, Abbey Mills, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the Gaelic terms Cul, signifying "a back," and Tir, "a country or district," from its situation on the side of the … or Norwegians, during their invasions of this part of the country in the 11th century. But, from its form, and … distinguished for important services rendered to their country: John Rowle, prior of Pittenweem, who in 1542 was a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… when the Danes, having laid waste the neighbouring country, plundered the town, massacred the monks, and burnt …
The Spanish Company
… be had therein we shall be driven to forsake the country and give over trading thither. And therefore we most … Jesuits and seminarians, enemies to our king and country. And for their maintenance have and do constrain our …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… his Majesty and the oppressions of the people of that country, having the opinion of learned lawyers that the late … into waiting and was sworn accordingly. Being in the country when the Household was settled, he was left out of … Windsor Forest in the bailiwick of Surrey is a forest, the country now endeavouring to free themselves totally from the …