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Survey of London
… ground held by a Captain Conisby, containing seventeen long Tentors. South of this was a Spyning and twisting place, … a deed described a house in Rose Lane as now and for a long time past let out to and inhabited from time to time by … a block with four storeys of dwellings above shops. The long range of Nathaniel Dwellings (1891) rises four storeys …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… king Lucius, was then translated to Canterbury, 4 and not long after, in 604, he provided for the episcopal chair at … any of his suffragan bishops would come to parliament, so long as the archbishop of York was there, or in the city or … came to parliament. 30 This controversy continued for a long time; Lambarde, whose zeal frequently outruns his …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… prophecy of the most blessed King and Confessor Edward, so long time before foretold of this place, is now at length … From the back of the head falls an appendage 3 in. long and 1 in. wide which forms part of the hood. They are … the tomb and below the effigy is a stone slab, 7 ft. 3 in. long and 2 ft. high, arranged in four panels; above this slab …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… the hearts of many. There he made it his business all day long to attend spectacles, banquets, jests and the rest of … far wide of the truth. Rahere's renown as a minstrel had, long before Stow's time, grown to a fabulous extent, as is … monastery of Holy Trinity, Aldgate. Her husband spent long intervals, several years at a time, in Normandy, when …
Survey of London
… to Captain Thomas Coram, has an honourable place in the long chain of charitable institutions, generally known as … architect selected was Theodore Jacobsen, of the family long connected with the Steelyard in the City of London. He … 17471753, forming an independent north block, and two long three-storey ranges to the east and west, the former …
Survey of London
… was eager to lease extensive building sites at a date long before the estate was planned by Cockerell. He was asked … ornament, in accordance with the speculating builders' age-long practice of providing a pleasant first impression to … when leases were granted to John Wilson, Joseph Wigg, John Long of Christ's Hospital, and John Lovell of Red Lion …
Old and New London
… of vice, if illegitimate children were admitted as long as there was room, without any restriction; and the … above the income. The governors, nevertheless, who had long been desirous of making it a Foundling Hospital on the … of the Royal Academy of Arts. Yet such was the case. Not long after the incorporation of the society, the present …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… obtained by Prior Robert de Novo Loco (who died 1261) 61 long before the Mortmain Act was published, and the king …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… be bread. Three months later he publicly recanted; but not long after he returned once more to his first conclusions. He … the others of his order the bishops of this realm for long past there has not died, than the aforesaid, one who was … knowing and feeling that the continuance of human life, so long as it is shipwrecked in the raging sea of this world, is …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… the hospital, 47 at this time there had been discord for a long while between them over the articles of the composition … his successor, and consent to the election of Richard de Sutton, would have been obtained from Prior Thomas de … what subsequently took place does not appear. Richard de Sutton, soon after his election, got into trouble with one of …