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A History of the County of Middlesex
… manor. 36 In 1652 a parliamentary survey was made of the demesne lands, mostly within Bethnal Green, sequestrated … in 1653 the former manor house, Bishop's or Bonner's Hall, and 93 a. surrounding it between the Hackney border and Old … bordering Shoreditch were important in the building history of Bethnal Green. The AUSTEN estate existed by 1550 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Introduction BETHNAL GREEN Bethnal green was known as the scene of the legend of the Blind Beggar and later as the archetypal East End slum, the green lying c. … Guildhall MS. 25422 (1404); B.L. Eg. MS. 3006, f.1 (1546); survey of 1550 in W. Robinson, Hist. Hackney, i (1842), 325; …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Local Government LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANORIAL AND EARLY PARISH GOVERNMENT. Bethnal Green lay wholly within the manor of Stepney of which it was a recognized locality by … by the opposition. 30 When Merceron was ousted in 1818 a survey and new ledgers were ordered 31 and the annual rate …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green Protestant Nonconformity PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY The first dissenting congregation was either that of an … 87 or one using the formerly Anglican St. George's chapel and associated with the dissenters' academy at Bishop's Hall. … although he was confused as to their denominations. 16 A survey of all accommodation for worship made by the London …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green Public Services PUBLIC SERVICES WATER SUPPLY. Until the 19th century Bethnal Green relied on springs or wells. There was a conduit and lead pipes in Conduit close, part of Pyotts on the east … epidemic disease, mostly of young children. 52 Gavin's survey, published in 1848, conclusively linked the physical …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green when he was indicted in 1588. 56 John Howe, a tenant of Bishop's Hall, was absent from church in 1640 57 but … proved unfounded. 58 Fifteen recusants were listed in 1678 and 1689. 59 One, a weaver in Nichol Street, was also listed … few if any'. 63 There were English Roman Catholics in the area in the 1830s and 1840s 64 and four families of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Settlement and Building to 1836 SETTLEMENT AND BUILDING SETTLEMENT AND … have been associated with a settlement in Whitechapel. 19 The place-name Blithehale or Blythenhale, the earliest form … 11/381 (P.C.C. 115 Cann), ff. 58-9; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 70; Survey of Lond, xxvii. 275. C.J. xxiv. 369. Below, the Green; …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green Social and Cultural Activities SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES There … in 1834, 19 an average of one for 285 people. Although the numbers rose to 136 public houses and 121 beershops by … were Protestants. Huguenot culture, with its mathematical, history, recitation, musical, entomological, floricultural, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green The Centre: Bethnal Green Road THE CENTRE: BETHNAL GREEN ROAD. The area between the green and Dog Row on the east, Spitalfields and Shoreditch Side on … c. 1650 was one built by John Godowne at the north-west of Great Haresmarsh before 1646, 91 at the eastern end of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green The East: Old Ford Lane, Green Street, and Globe Town THE EAST: OLD FORD LANE, GREEN STREET, AND … of the judges in the Sheriff's court of London': J. Stow, Survey of Lond. ed. Kingsford, i. 115; P.R.O., REQ 2/63/24; …