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Old and New London
… Fleet Street Northern tributaries - Shoe Lane and Bell Yard CHAPTER VI. Fleet Street (Northern TributariesShoe Lane And Bell Yard). The Kit-Kat ClubThe Toast for the YearLittle … friend of Pope and Swift, the question was mooted even in his time, as if the very founders of the club had forgotten. …
Old and New London
… ChambersThe Settlement after the Great FirePeter Wilkins and his Flying WivesFetter LaneWaller's Plot and its … of the unlucky Tomkins was buried in the churchyard of St. Andrew's, Holborn. According to Peter Cunningham, that … and resided with his father till the period of his death. Anthony Wood tells us that having written a scurrilous ballad …
Old and New London
… Mug-House RiotRichardson's Printing OfficeFielding and RichardsonJohnson's Estimate of RichardsonHogarth and … GuestAn Egotist RebukedThe King's "Housewife"Caleb Colton: his Life, Works, and Sentiments. Falcon Court, Fleet Street, … a sermon preached annually at the neighbouring church of St. Dunstan, on the 10th of July, when certain sums are given …
Old and New London
… First LucifersPerkins' Steam GunA Link between Shakespeare and Shoe LaneFlorio and his Labours"Cogers' Hall"Famous … in a very mean lodging, was buried at the west end of St. Bride's Church. The son of a knight, and brought up at Oxford, Anthony Wood describes the gallant and hopeful lad at …
Old and New London
… not one is more sacred to those who love that great and wise man than Bolt Court. To this monastic court Johnson … all the learned and worthy men who honoured him followed his body to its grave in the Abbey, near the feet of … and gifted man. From Bolt Court he walked to service at St. Clement's Church on the day he rejoiced in comparing the …
Old and New London
… jeer at the SocietyFranklin's Lightning Conductor and King George III.Sir Hans Sloane insultedThe Scottish … thought at the time that Newton was somewhat despotic in his announcement of the removal, and the members in council … During the dispute about lightning conductors (after St. Bride's Church was struck in 1764), in the year 1772, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Flegg Hundreds, West and East FLEGG HUNDREDS, WEST AND EAST. These two hundreds … granted (as it is said) these two hundreds to Henry, his nephew, then abbot, and the monks of St. Bennet: 1 in the 18th of Henry III a composition was made …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… Lynn 1647 Other notes Accused 1608 with BERNARDINUS 78 and SAPORANUS 651. ?=J.F. admitted as freeman of King's Lynn … hearings 25 July 1608 Entry F appeared with SAPORANUS and BERNADINUS, accused of selling 'anti-catharticum'. B said that S and F left the drug at his house and he only passed it on. Some suggestion that it …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… name from the Fleam Dyke, constructed between the Iron Age and the Anglo-Saxon period. 2 The Dyke's main section, which … to the Fen Ditton-Horningsea peninsula. Between the 6th and 9th centuries the southern section of the Dyke may have … Anglian Danes, during the campaigns that ended by 920 with his subjugation of the southern Danelaw. 4 Flendish hundred …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… FLETTON (C.a.). (O.S. 6 in. II S.E.) Fletton is a village and small parish adjoining Peterborough on the S. The church … the Roman period, particularly at a spot half-a-mile S. of St. Margaret's Church. Many objects, chiefly potsherds, were … also sub Woodstone). Ecclesiastical (2). Parish Church of St. Margaret stands in the village. The walls are of …