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Memorials of London and London Life
… cards of iron being found less advantageous. According to Stow ( Survey) a piece of land in Bishopsgate, called "Tasel …
Memorials of London and London Life
… they cannot sell it according to their own will, they now stow it away in houses, gardens, and other places, just as … and women upon their heads, as has heretofore should not stow away such hay, or land the same, before it has been … of forfeiting the hay with which it has been should not stow away such hay, or land the same, before it has been …
Memorials of London and London Life
… Shearers of the nap of cloth. vadlett. It is related by Stow that the body of this Alice de Hakeneye was found, in an …
Memorials of London and London Life
… Upholder, or undertaker, at the present day; though Stow says, a fripperer, or dealer in secondhand clothes and …
Memorials of London and London Life
… does not seem to have been made. Called "Hog Lane," in Stow's time. Or St. Mary Spittle. Probably, meaning the …
Memorials of London and London Life
… Midsummer Day) is evidently meant; though, according to Stow ( Survey), the watch extended to the night of the … on Midsummer Eve, see Brand's Popular Antiquities and Stow's Survey. See also page 420 ante. paelles. Assessment to …
Memorials of London and London Life
… has been stated by Collins ( Peerage), on the authority of Stow, that Thomas Legge, who had been Mayor in 1347 and 1354, … on pillars underneath, and extending into the street. In Stow's time, Sidon, or Sything, Lane; now Seething Lane. In …
Memorials of London and London Life
… probably that " bladers" meant "bladesmiths." John Stow, in his Survey, two centuries later, has made the very …