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A History of the County of Gloucester
… In 1744 Thomas's executors leased the estate to Robert Ball of Stonehouse, 38 and in 1755 the whole estate was … Jones sold it in the same or the following year to Robert Ball. Ball sold Ebworth in 1766 to John Gibson, from whom it was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… to the arches, while there are no ossifications in the ball of the eye. Plesiosaurus compressus has been met with in …
Old and New London
… trust old writers, derives its name from the French Hand-ball or Palm-play, and was played in London as far back as …
Survey of London
… was always to be held 'in Parliament Time' and one black ball excluded; the total membership was to be limited to 250. …
Survey of London
… Pall Mall (Plate 228a). 196 The new house included a ball-room first used on 10 March 1863 for a ball to celebrate the marriage of the Prince of Wales. 198 …
Survey of London
… was to dress the firstfloor window balconies with fussy ball-finials; the attic windows were to be square, with a …
Old and New London
… originally in the Courier de l'Europe:"It is spacious as a ball-room, kept in the finest order, and white as a young … limited to four hundred and fifty. . . . . A single black ball is sufficient to exclude. The members of the club are … who were resolved to keep him out. As one black ball at that time excluded a candidate, the Foxites resolved …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… columns. The oak staircase has square newel-posts with ball finials, close strings, moulded handrails and stout …